The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in two key affirmative action cases. Here’s what the justices have said or written about race-conscious policies.
is whether UT or any other university may adopt an admissions plan that results in a student body with a broad representation of students from all racial and ethnic groups,” Alito wrote.
She has called herself a “perfect affirmative action baby” — raised in New York housing projects where English was not her family’s primary language. Her test scores alone probably would not have merited her admission to Princeton and Yale Law School, she said. She wrote that she prefers the term “race-sensitive admissions policies” to “affirmative action,” and directly confronted Roberts’s statement in the Seattle case.
. “As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.”Kagan, on the court since 2010, has not participated in its cases on affirmative action, most likely because she played an advocate’s role as President Barack Obama’s solicitor general before she became a justice.
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