Opinion | How Diversity Undermined Affirmative Action
Briefly

When the Supreme Court first ruled that universities could consider race in their admissions process, in 1978's Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the nine justices wrote six opinions between them.The court's divisions were suggestive of an enduring uncertainty in the debate about affirmative action, which will return to the Supreme Court in oral arguments next week: Even among its supporters there isn't always a consensus over what affirmation action is for.
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