Roger Clegg

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Roger Clegg serves on the board of the Center for Equal Opportunity, where he was formerly president and general counsel.

Roger Clegg serves on the board of the Center for Equal Opportunity, where he was formerly president and general counsel; he also has a Christian blogsite at MerePensees.com. A former deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan and Bush administrations, Clegg held the second highest positions in both the civil-rights division (1987-91) and in the environment and natural-resources division (1991-93). He also held several other positions at the U.S. Justice Department, including assistant to the solicitor general. Clegg is a graduate of Yale Law School.

Religion

Re: Enduring Lessons from the Very Short Book of Haggai

By Roger Clegg July 11, 2021

Those shorter and less discussed books in the Bible contain a lot of gold.

Law & the Courts

Take the Harvard Case

By Roger Clegg June 7, 2021

The Court should be willing to do its part to clean up the mess it has helped create and which will only get worse otherwise.

Law & the Courts

How Can They Think They Are Allowed to Do That?

By Roger Clegg May 21, 2021

Here’s hoping that lawsuits are filed in the lower courts to ensure the limited exceptions to the bans on racial discrimination remain limited.

PC Culture

EEOC Witness Disinvited

By Roger Clegg May 18, 2021

Devon Westhill’s testimony was too critical of corporate wokeness.

Media

Now We Know (Not)

By Roger Clegg April 21, 2021

What does the Derek Chauvin trial tell us about the police, and race, and the criminal-justice system in America? Well, it’s one datum. That’s it.

Law & the Courts

Race-Conscious Decision-Making Is Always Dangerous

By Roger Clegg March 4, 2021

Racial disproportions can always be avoided, but where doing so involves anything other than eliminating actual discrimination, it will cause discrimination.