Students for fair admissions in this lawsuit are led by a longtime opponent of affirmative action named Edward Bloom. The assumption that race necessarily informs something about anyone's qualifications is antithetical to this court's precedence and to our Constitution, says David Gergen. "In the case of Harvard and other elite universities, that thumb on the scale is now diminishing the opportunity of Asian Americans," he adds.

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