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He was denied admission to the University of Texas. He claims it’s because he’s white. Pushed aside because of affirmative action. Now the Supreme Court will hear his challenge to the law designed to give minorities an equal footing in the United States. A 2003 challenge to affirmative  action at the University of Michigan failed.
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As my colleague Jamelle Bouie noted yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Fisher v. UT Austin, a challenge to the use of affirmative action for undergraduate admissions at the University of Texas. I wish I could make a case fo... Read Post

Once again, affirmative action is on trial in the Supreme Court. The pending case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, challenges U.T. Austin's admissions policy, which aims to bring in more students of color by considering rac... Read Post

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas. The court said Tuesday it will ... Read Post