Justices appear skeptical of affirmative action

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The Harvard case decisions -- in 2019 by Judge Allison Burroughs and in 2020 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit -- came in a much-watched case brought by a long-standing critic of affirmative action, Students for Fair Admissions, on behalf of a group of Asian American plaintiffs.
58% :Prelogar said, "I do think eventually" affirmative action will end in higher education.
57% : The composition of the Supreme Court differs significantly from the last time it upheld the use of affirmative action in college admissions, in 2016, in a case involving the University of Texas at Austin.
56% : How important were Monday's Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action?
55% : When the U.S. solicitor general, Elizabeth B. Prelogar, said the U.S. service academies practice affirmative action in admissions because the military needs a diverse population, Justice Thomas asked his statement again.
54% : The brief asked the Supreme Court to repeal its 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the use of affirmative action in admissions by the law school at the University of Michigan.
52% : Three justices -- Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor -- asked questions that suggested support for affirmative action.
50% : The cases represent a chance for opponents of affirmative action to reverse not only the Harvard and UNC decisions but many others that have upheld the use of affirmative action since the Supreme Court ruled in the Bakke case in 1978.
46% : In arguments before the Supreme Court Monday, six justices with a history of opposing affirmative action -- and new justices expected to oppose affirmative action -- asked questions and offered comments that reflected skepticism about the practice at both universities.
45% : The Washington Post's was "Supreme Court Seems Open to Ending Affirmative Action in College Admissions."
37% : That decision was 4 to 3 because of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, an opponent of affirmative action, and the recusal of Justice Kagan, who worked on the case as solicitor general before she joined the Supreme Court.

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