Coming Soon from the Supreme Court? Monday, June 27, 2022
The US Supreme Court has been much in the news in the last few days with its rulings on guns and abortion. In the past, we have noted the University of North Carolina and Harvard admissions cases - essentially tests of affirmative action in admissions - will be before the Court in the fall. If you read yesterday's print LA Times - and got to the very end of the front-page analysis article by David Savage (most people don't finish long articles) - you would have read:
... The new court is also prepared to knock down another 1970s-era compromise on the role affirmative action plays in admissions to colleges and universities. In 1978, the court was split on whether to reject a University of California policy that set aside several slots for minority students at the UC Davis Medical School. Four justices thought this was an illegal quota, and four others thought it was reasonable affirmative action.
Powell was in the middle. He thought the set-asides were illegal, but he wrote approvingly of an admissions policy that used a student’s race as one “plus” factor to 280
UCLA Faculty Association Blog: 2nd Quarter 2022
