(FREE BEACON) – Harvard University this week urged the Supreme Court to reject a challenge to its affirmative action policies, but its brief is more likely to aggravate the conservative majority than pacify its well-documented hostility to race-conscious policies.
Students for Fair Admissions, the advocacy group behind the lawsuit, alleges that Harvard discriminates against Asian applicants, and their petition calls on the justices to demolish the legal foundations of affirmative action. Harvard urged the justices not to get involved, saying the petition doesn’t meet the Court’s usual criteria for taking cases.
The Supreme Court last considered affirmative action in a 2016 case, Fisher v. University of Texas. In that case, a four-justice majority turned back a challenge to UT’s race-conscious admissions policy. The conservative dissenters zeroed in on the vagueness of UT’s goals and the operational details of its program to launch a broader critique of the Court’s decision.
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