Supreme Court will hear Harvard and UNC affirmative action cases

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 on behalf of a group of Asian American plaintiffs.
57% : The Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal of a decision that Harvard University's use of affirmative action in college admissions is legal.
57% : The decision comes at a time when 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.
55% : The court will also hear an appeal of a ruling that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's use of affirmative action was legal.
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. "
50% : The decision to hear the cases represents 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.
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 Elena Kagan, who worked on the case as solicitor general before she joined the Supreme Court.

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