I was wondering whether it might be a good idea to pre-assign the reading of Grutter/Gratz and Lawrence and begin the next semester's class with a discussion of them instead of starting with Marbury and the structure of government cases. Sure, we'd skip, initially, a lot of the build-up, but we could catch up on that as we went along. Might make Marbury seem a lot more relevant and J/R a lot more significant and controversial, especially in the non-textual area.
I heard a spokesman for Center of Individual Rights, the conservative group that backed plaintiffs in Grutter/Gratz, commenting on the new decisions on a talk show that "Conservatives want the Constitution interpreted as it is, while Liberals want it interpreted according to how it ought to be."
Cute.
Robert Sheridan
