Gail Heriot of The Right Coast has two excellent posts on the late Stanley Mosk, a liberal California Supreme Court justice who eloquently opposed racial preferences. (HatTip to Todd Zywicki)
The posts are here and here, and the latter also has a useful reminder that liberal icon William O. Douglas also emphatically rejected racial preferences. (I have discussed Douglas’s position here and here, where I noted that his dissent in DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312 (1974) was a “stirring denunciation of racial double standards [and] is a now a largely ignored reminder of the days when it was the liberals who argued for colorblindness.”)
