Here we go: SCOTUS takes up affirmative-action challenges at Harvard, North Carolina

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Despite similar challenges, the court has repeatedly upheld affirmative action in the past.
54% : "Public schools have no legitimate interest in maintaining a precise racial balance," the group wrote in its brief to the court.
51% : The Supreme Court will hear challenges to a decades-long practice of affirmative action in private and public colleges after appellate courts quashed claims against both:
50% : "The same Fourteenth Amendment that required public schools to dismantle segregation after [Brown v. Board of Education] cannot be cowed by the diktats of university administrators." That the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the cases is widely seen as an indication that the court could be willing to revisit its precedents on affirmative action and end the use of racial classifications in admissions altogether.
48% : In the latest case, a group backed by a longtime opponent of affirmative action, Edward Blum of Maine, sued Harvard in federal court, claiming its undergraduate admissions system discriminated against Asian-American students.
45% : The cases join a blockbuster series of issues on the Supreme Court's docket, including gun rights and abortion.
42% : The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear challenges to the admissions process at Harvard and University of North Carolina, presenting the most serious threat in decades to the use of affirmative action by the nation's public and private colleges and universities.
42% : That produced Dobbs and the latest freak-out from progressives, and a negative ruling on affirmative action would send them into orbit.
14% : Chief Justice John Roberts has been among the most outspoken critics of affirmative action, famously declaring in a 2006 opinion, "It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race."

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