The Role of Race in the College Admissions Process

In the 90s, Michigan Law School tailored an affirmative action plan designed to help minority students reach critical mass. The Supreme Court rejected that rationale in a case called Grooder versus Bollinger from 2003. Now what is we have? A conservative activist named Edward Blum recruited a young white woman named Abigail Fisher who had been rejected by the University of Texas at Austin to challenge its admissions policies. Those became the Fisher line of cases and they were just as fractured as the original back-y case.