Supreme Court punts on affirmative action case

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2. Good news, they recognize the difficulty of the issue and don't act like bull in china shop.

From SCOTUSblog:

Here’s the money quote: “The reviewing court must ultimately be satisfied that no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity.”

The opinion by Kennedy. The Fifth Circuit is vacated and remanded. The holding is because the Fifth Circuit did not hold the university to the demanding burden of strict scrutiny articulated in Grutter and Bakke, its decision affiming the district court’s grant of summary judgment was incorrect.

There is one dissent. It is 7-1. Ginsburg dissents alone. There are separate concurring opinions by Scalia and Thomas. Kagan was recused.

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