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Affirmative Action Reaction

Strict Scrutiny

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Isn't This a Classic Roberts Court Move?

Roberts pegged the origin story of the Harvard plan not to Powell or Harvard in the 1970s, but rather to Harvard in the 1920s. The president of Harvard, Henry Cabot Lowell, used this questionnaire that was meant to sort of identify certain kinds of characteristics as a means of limiting the enrollment of Jewish students. And equating these race conscious measures that are designed to achieve racial integration as the same as like race conscious measures once used to exclude black and Jewish students is "disrespectful," he says.

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