Supreme Court hears challenges to affirmative action live updates: Arguments in two cases

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The justices on Monday will hear two major cases, the first starting at 10 a.m. regarding affirmative action at the University of North Carolina.
56% : It's the first test for affirmative action before the current court, which has a six-justice conservative majority and three justices of color, including the first-ever Black woman justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
51% : The Supreme Court on Monday will revisit the question of affirmative action in higher education.
45% : The court's three liberal justices are challenging Patrick Strawbridge, arguing the case for Students for Fair Admissions, to articulate the harm from schools using race as one factor in a holistic review, consistent with Supreme Court precedent on affirmative action.
40% : Strawbridge said flatly the court should overrule 40 years of affirmative action precedent inconsistent with Brown and "egregiously wrong."
35% : One junior at Harvard University, one of the schools where affirmative action is being challenged, said: "We can't just look at singular, individual numbers to determine who is most qualified or who should belong.
18% : Oct 31, 10:04 AM EDT Trump attorneys will make case against affirmative action Two attorneys who have represented former President Donald Trump will make the case against affirmative action at the Supreme Court.

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