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Affirmative Action: Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decides To Send UT-Austin’s Race-Conscious Admissions Back For Review
By a 7-1 vote on Thursday, the Supreme Court told an appeals court that it misinterpreted the justices’ precedent when reviewing the University of Texas at Austin’s affirmative action policy.
The decision is a provisional victory for Abigail Fisher, a white woman who claimed that UT-Austin unconstitutionally discriminated against her after the state’s flagship university rejected her application in 2008 under its race-conscious admissions program. UT-Austin will now have a much more difficult job of proving its program constitutional under the standard the Supreme Court clarified on Monday.
Justice Elena Kagan, the former dean of Harvard Law School, recused herself, presumably due to her involvement with the case while she served as President Barack Obama’s first solicitor general.
SOURCE: Huffington Post
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