![]() ![]() ![]() In 2016, the US supreme court narrowly voted to uphold race-conscious admissions in a Blum-backed case by Abigail Fisher, a white woman denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin. In the last decade, the conservative activist Edward Blum has led challenges seeking to curtail such constitutional protection, mostly recently in a 2013 case gutting the Voting Rights Act. That set the precedent until 2003 when, in a challenge by a white student denied admission to the University of Michigan Law School, the court upheld race as a consideration in admissions under the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause. The court concluded that race could be factored in the admissions process but stopped colleges from setting racial quotas. The idea met its first challenge in 1978, in a case involving Allan Bakke, a white man who was denied admission to the University of California at Davis medical school. ![]()
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