The Supreme Court adds affirmative action to its potential hit list

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : When it comes to affirmative action, Harvard's program has long been a model cited by the court in dealing with programs at other schools.
58% : By accepting both cases, the court can consider whether that public vs. private distinction matters for affirmative action.
51% : The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to revisit the question of affirmative action in higher education, deciding to hear a case challenging Harvard and the University of North Carolina's use of race in college admissions.
50% : The former financial adviser and onetime congressional candidate has been the driving force behind cases opposing affirmative action for years.
48% : In their appeal to the Supreme Court, the students are asking the justices to erase affirmative action altogether.
38% : With the court already having heard arguments this term on abortion and guns, the affirmative action case marks yet another politically charged issue that threatens to uproot decades of legal doctrine.
37% : But three of the justices who voted against affirmative action in 2016 -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito -- are still on the court, and they now have been joined by three Trump-appointed conservatives.

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