A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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I Think the Conservative Justices Will Wind Up Striking Down Top Ten % Plans as Well
conservatives will smetimes, say that in place of affirmative action, states and other jurisdictions should create top ten % plans. The whole point of those plans is to bring in more racial minorities to overwhelmingly wide schools. A virginia jurisdiction switched its system for enrolling in this really great magnet school to a sort of top ten % plan. Parents challenged that plan as racist against asian american students. They lost in the lower courts, but three justices would have blocked it at the supreme court. So i think it's pretty clear that what we're seeing is the first of a one, two punch. You can't even consider an applicant's race when deciding whether to let them in. And
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