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RECIPIENT PROFILEEIN: 52-1600481 Center for Individual RightsWashington, DC 20036 According to a May 21, 2001 report on the Center in the Washington Post, it was: "Created in 1989 by former Reagan administration attorney Michael McDonald and conseravtive scholar Michael Greve...with 10 full-time employees and an annual budget of $1.9 million, [it] receives most of its funding from libertarian and conservative foundations such as those run by Richard Mellon Scaife." The Center, technically a 501(c)(3) charity, has had broad political impact in bringing and arguing cases before numerous courts across the country that have effectively wiped out affirmative action at a number of large public universities, including those in Texas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi and Michigan. They are now (5/2001) vying to invalidate affirmative action in all higher education, bringing a petition to the US Supreme Court. A lawyer who has argued and won cases for the Center, Theodore Olson, is also now nominated to be Republican George W. Bush's Solicitor General. If confirmed, Olson would present the government's case to the Supreme Court. Asked if this presented a conflict of interest since he was the Center, Olson said in such a case he may recuse himself.
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OTHER LINKSInstitute for the Study of Academic Racism African-American Opportunities in Higher EducationWhat Are the Racial Goals of The Center for Individual Rights? Dressed in the traditional garb of a citizen reformer, the Washington-based Center for Individual Rights projects itself as a champion of the persecuted, a white knight whose goal is to expunge the cancer of affirmative action that is eating away at our nation's academic standards. But this group of racially conservative lawyers has used staged litigation, deceptive public statements, and incitements of racial fears for the purpose of ethnically reengineering college admissions procedures in a way that would remove most African Americans from our leading colleges.
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