Guinier

But, yes, as Henry Louis Gates and Lani Guinier have complained, affirmative action in elite American colleges is increasingly helping blacks whose ancestors were never enslaved in America, Barack Obama being an obvious example.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010

But, yes, as Henry Louis Gates and Lani Guinier have complained, affirmative action in elite American colleges is increasingly helping blacks whose ancestors were never enslaved in America, Barack Obama being an obvious example.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010

MartyA — Lani Guinier would bring some diversity: Radcliffe for undergrad, Yale Law, and a professor at HarvardAnthony (Quote)

The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Diverse Shortlist 2010

This is another Lani Guinier/Robert Bork type of nomination.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Liu Goes Before the Judiciary Committee 2010

This year, I might actually watch; Lani Guinier and Julianne Malveaux in the same room together out to make for some very exploded heads.

an official commentary. transgriot 2009

It is imperative that he appoint a nominee who, like Guinier, Crenshaw, and Berry, recognizes the historical mission and importance of the 14th Amendment -- which, by the way, has arguably been the motor of more civil rights jurisprudence than any other provision of the Constitution.

Jim Downs: Student Activism, the 14th Amendment, and the Nomination of Elena Kagan 2010

If nothing else, the nomination of Guinier, Crenshaw, or Berry would have promoted an important and engaged discussion about the continued problems of racism and sexism than the cutesy, national lampooning of Kagan's sexual identity.

Jim Downs: Student Activism, the 14th Amendment, and the Nomination of Elena Kagan 2010

In the face of opposition -- what one friend of Guinier's called a "low-tech lynching" -- Clinton backed down, not only withdrawing her nomination, but refusing to afford Guinier the opportunity to speak out in her own defense (and, of course, his).

Duchess Harris: Shirley Sherrod for President 2010

Guinier has since remained a prolific scholar, and like Kagan until recently, teaches at Harvard Law School.

Jim Downs: Student Activism, the 14th Amendment, and the Nomination of Elena Kagan 2010

Guinier entered the national spotlight when President Clinton nominated her as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, but he had to withdraw his nomination based on purposely malicious misrepresentations of her comments regarding the "tyranny of the majority" and her efforts to make the voting process fair.

Jim Downs: Student Activism, the 14th Amendment, and the Nomination of Elena Kagan 2010