![]() ![]() Blum is banking on the fact that, with the appointment of three new conservative justices, he now has the votes to get the result he has always wanted but has never been able to achieve. He lost that case in 2016 when the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas’s use of race in admissions. ![]() Texas, a case that also went all the way up to the Supreme Court. The Harvard and UNC cases pending before the Supreme Court seek to reverse four decades of precedent and prevent colleges and universities from ever considering race or ethnicity in admissions in any way and for any reason.Īlthough the case against Harvard is filed ostensibly on behalf of Asian American students, and there is much made in that case about the fact that Asian Americans suffer discrimination in admissions at elite schools like Harvard, at the end of the day, the case is simply an attack on the practice of considering race in college admissions.īoth the Harvard and UNC cases were filed by the same conservative activist (Edward Blum) who has been trying to get the Supreme Court to invalidate the use of race and ethnicity in college and university admissions since 2008 when he filed Fisher v. What are the issues in the case before the Supreme Court? Last fall, the court heard arguments challenging decades of precedent that have upheld the use of race and ethnicity as one factor among many that can be considered in the admissions process at colleges and universities.Īhead of the decision, Stacy Hawkins, vice dean and professor of law at Rutgers Law School and a senior faculty fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, shares what is at stake and her prediction for the likely outcome. The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision later this month in a consequential case that will determine the fate of affirmative action at colleges and universities. ![]()
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