From Bakke to Fisher, evolution of affirmative action cases
Associated PressWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will take up the issue of affirmative action again Monday — the second time in six years — but with the conservative majority now generally expected to end the use of race in higher education admissions. The Supreme Court said in a 5-4 decision that the law school’s admissions policy, which considered race as one factor in admissions, was not illegal. Frustrated that affirmative action survived anyway, Gratz was instrumental in Michigan’s passage of Proposal 2, which ended race-based preferences in state university admissions. Three years later, when her case returned to the court, the justices in a narrow ruling upheld the school’s use of affirmative action. The group’s head is Edward Blum, a former stockbroker who also financially backed Fisher’s original case and other race-based Supreme Court cases.
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U.S. Supreme Court strikes down university race-conscious admissions policies
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Challenge to Harvard’s use of affirmative action was designed by a conservative to reach a friendly Supreme Court
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Op-Ed: If the Supreme Court bans affirmative action, it continues the U.S. legacy of racial discrimination
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