Supreme Court to hear arguments over race in college admissions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "The same Fourteenth Amendment that required public schools to dismantle segregation after Brown cannot be defeated by the whims of university administrators," the group's brief stated.
57% : "It's very likely that a majority of the current right-wing justices on the court will end affirmative action as we know it in higher education, given the majority's recent comfort in overturning well-established precedent," Feingold said.
46% : What the justices say in more than two hours of arguments on these higher education cases could signal the court's approach to anti-discrimination laws in other areas, like employment.
41% : Feingold and other experts point to the decision on abortion last term to show the conservative wing of the court might not be shy in overturning precedents they don't agree with.
41% : Barrett also has not written about affirmative action in her short time as a judge or justice, Wake said.
41% : Several dozen Democratic House members, led by Rep. Robert C. Scott of Virginia, argued in a brief in the case that Congress has had decades to weigh in against the use of affirmative action in college admissions and has not considered legislation to curtail it.
39% : The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a pair of cases Monday about whether the use of race in college admissions decisions at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina is unconstitutional or violates a federal anti-discrimination law.

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