This morning, the Supreme Court punted on Fisher v. University of Texas. In her dissent, Justice Gin
This morning, the Supreme Court punted on Fisher v. University of Texas. In her dissent, Justice Ginsburg defended affirmative action as more than just achieving diversity in a student body, but attending to the “lingering effects of ‘an overtly discriminatory past.’” Colorlines’ infographic does a good job of illustrating those lingering effects.SCOTUSblog explains that the decision means “affirmative action survives at least in theory (which would gain the support of Justices Breyer and Sotomayor), but will be far more difficult to implement in practice (which would gain the support of the Court’s more conservative Justices).” -- source link
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