The Supreme Court will begin a new term with more contentious cases on its docket

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In other words, affirmative action, they say, is a form of discrimination.
54% : In the affirmative action case, the challengers' case rests heavily on the Supreme Court's 1954 decision outlawing segregation in public schools.
47% : Kagan can see, probably better than the rest of us, that there may well be more dramatic right turns again this year on everything from affirmative action to voting rights, clean water regulations, and an asserted First Amendment right to discriminate against same-sex couples in public accommodations.
37% : Challenging these laws is Lori Smith, a web designer in Colorado who doesn't want to make designs for same-sex couples because she asserts that would violate her religious principles.

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