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...those who believe in racial inclusion and broadening of opportunity in a multiracial society should be pleased by today’s narrow but significant victory,” he said...
...definitely a split decision,” said Curt Levey, director of legal and public affairs for the Center for Individual Rights, a non-profit Washington law firm which opposes racial preferences...
...plus" factor. This method is more like the University of Michigan's Law School, and the Court's ruling protects that practice as constitutional. For those who oppose affirmative action, the Court said that in 25 years it expects colleges and universities no longer to use racial preferences to create diversity. But that was little consulation. "It's an enormous victory for colleges and universities," said Sheldon Steinbach, general counsel for the American Council on Education, a national group that represents more than 1600 colleges and had filed a brief supporting the University of Michigan...
...agree that this ruling firmly entrenches affirmative action in the law, at least until there is a radical change in the membership of the Court. For most colleges, the decision means that they can maintain their current admissions processes, which favor black, Hispanic and Native American applicants to ensure racial diversity. When the suits were filed, a few colleges stopped considering race at all in the admissions process, and it's likely they will adopt affirmative actions programs similar to that of the Michigan Law School. In addition, in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, where a 1996 federal court decision...
...Once the Court took the Michigan cases, both affirmative action supporters and opponents thought that it might strike the final blow to racial preference admissions policies. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, often the swing vote on the Court, has expressed concerns repeatedly in opinions about how long affirmative action will be a viable remedy to help underrepresented minorities in business. But in today's ruling, she quoted from the former Justice Lewis Powell's Bakke opinion in arguing that diversity represented a "compelling state interest" which should be supported through affirmative action. Legal scholars say they weren't surprised...