U.S. Supreme Court to hear affirmative action cases that echo previous attempts to target UT

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The case against Harvard and UNC will be the court's first major case to consider affirmative action since 2016.
56% : Blum also is asking the court to overturn its 2003 ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger, which first upheld the use of affirmative action at the law school admissions program at the University of Michigan.
54% : The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases that challenge the use of race in college admissions, which could determine the future of affirmative action in higher education.
51% : Supreme Court justices questioned the University of Texas' use of race in admissions in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action.
50% : The Supreme Court has previously upheld affirmative action in multiple cases, including most recently in Fisher v. University of Texas in 2016, when Blum lost his challenge to the school's consideration of race in its undergraduate admissions process.
24% : Since the 2016 ruling, Blum has continued to pursue challenges against affirmative action, and the court also has grown more conservative with three new judges appointed by former President Donald Trump.

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