The Brennan Center and the League of Women Voters filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to uphold the University of Texas at Austin’s admissions policies, including the university’s reasonable efforts to encourage diversity in its classrooms.

Loughry v. Tennant et al. and Callaghan v. Tennant et al. are companion cases in and state and federal court, respectively, in which the Brennan Center is defending a West Virginia law that provides public financing for West Virginia Supreme Court elections.