Affirmative-Action Critics See Texas Case as a Vehicle for a Supreme Court Victory

The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Peter Schmidt
Washington
October 31, 2011

Leading critics of affirmative action say they are optimistic that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up a lawsuit challenging the race-conscious admissions policies of the University of Texas at Austin and hand down a ruling that curtails, or even ends, the use of such admissions preferences by colleges around the nation.
In briefs urging the Supreme Court to hear the case, the lawyers for two white students rejected by the university have been joined by several...

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