Edward Blum is a legal strategist and conservative activist known for his long-running efforts to challenge race-conscious policies in voting rights, affirmative action, and redistricting. He has been instrumental in bringing landmark cases before the Supreme Court, including challenges to the Voting Rights Act and university admissions policies. He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard covering civil rights law, racial politics, and voting rights jurisprudence.
The Bronx, New York (pop.1,332,650), Pinkham's Grant, New Hampshire (pop. zero), and Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One (pop. 3,500) in Travis County, Texas share a special status under our nation's civil rights laws: All are covered by Section 5 of the landmark 1965 Voting…
Whenever the NAACP, People for the American Way, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Public Citizen Litigation Group intervene in a lawsuit, it is safe to assume they believe much is…
WHEN YOU'RE TEN points behind in the polls, less than two months away from the first presidential primaries, and African American Democrats are divided between you and the front-runner, what is the easiest way to narrow that gap?
Unlike its more upscale neighbors of Scarsdale and Larchmont, the village of Port Chester, New York (pop. 28,000), is a modest bedroom community in wealthy Westchester County, a 35-minute rail commute from midtown Manhattan. Since 1868, the village has been governed by a six-member board of…
"A City of Homes . . . A City for Business . . . A City Rich with History and Multi-cultural Diversity"--so reads the motto of Springfield, Massachusetts (pop. 150,000), halfway between New York and Boston. With an ethnic mix of blacks, whites, Hispanics, and others reflected in its local…
IF YOU LIKE WHAT California has done to deregulate electricity, you will love its plans to make college admissions "fairer."
IN A TWIST OF FATE and legal protocol, the arguments made in an amicus brief in defense of school busing and racial quotas by Clinton-era civil rights enforcer Bill Lan Lee will soon go before the Fourth Circuit as the position of the Bush Justice Department. The case is Swann v.…
IN A TWIST OF FATE AND LEGAL PROTOCOL, the arguments made in an amicus brief in defense of school busing and racial quotas by Clinton-era civil rights enforcer Bill Lan Lee will soon go before the Fourth Circuit as the position of the Bush Justice Department. The case is Swann v.…