The author-- lawyer, former Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Commissioner, and U.S. Magistrate-- writes about his eighteen-year battle on behalf of students and their parents to end the injustice of forced busing in San Diego. Calling on the United States Constitution and legal precedents, he presents a reasoned opposition to race-based affirmative action in our public schools.
Elmer Enstrom, Jr., was an Assistant United States Attorney in San Diego, California, from 1959 until mid-1964. He then became United States Commissioner for San Diego County, taking leave in late 1966 to serve as Director-Chief Counsel, Legal Aid Society of San Diego. On July 1, 1969 he became a United States Magistrate until his retirement in 1973.
Mr. Enstrom represented, pro bono, the Intervenors in the Carlin "desegregation" case from 1980 until its end on July 1, 1998.