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...battlefield may have seemed quiet of late, but the war over affirmative action isn't necessarily over. O'Connor cast the decisive vote in the landmark 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy of taking race into account on a case-by-case basis. In a separate ruling concerning Michigan undergraduate admissions, the court said rigid race quotas or formulas were unconstitutional. Any number of groups could potentially spark a new challenge. Anti-affirmative-action activist Ward Connerly is spearheading a 2006 ballot initiative in Michigan that would amend the state...
...FAIR brief argues that Lifland’s ruling bucked the Supreme Court’s June 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger. In that case, which addressed the use of race as part of the criteria for admission at the University of Michigan Law School, the Court affirmed that “universities occupy a special niche in our constitutional tradition” and are entitled to extensive First Amendment freedoms...
...University president also looked toward the future. Citing Grutter v. Bollinger—the recent Supreme Court decision which upheld affirmative action with the belief that it would be unnecessary in 25 years—Summers said he looked forward to the possibility of affirmative action being unnecessary in Cambridge...
...Grutter ruling relied on the contention that diversity in higher education is a “compelling state interest that can justify the use of race in university admissions”—and that this interest trumps concerns about discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This view was first articulated by former Justice Lewis F. Powell’s majority opinion in Bakke...
Still, the question of affirmative action won’t be over this fall when Michigan debuts its new undergraduate admissions policy in line with Gratz. With an eye toward the future, O’Connor’s majority in Grutter articulated a tentative sunset clause for affirmative action...