An affirmative action backlash that began in California and migrated
to Michigan has now reached the Supreme Court, with university
admissions and more potentially on the line.
In one of the new
term’s highest-profile cases, the court on Tuesday will consider a
Michigan ballot measure that bans the use of race in public university
admissions. Inspired by a similar measure in California, the Michigan
policy has divided other states, while giving court conservatives their
latest chance to roll back race-based preferences.
“This measure
was so polarizing that it created a racial divide,” Mark Rosenbaum, the
chief counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern
California, said Thursday. “Instead of healing the nation’s wounds, it
actually opens those wounds.”
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