{"id":1004207,"date":"2021-11-12T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1004207"},"modified":"2021-11-12T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:44:40","slug":"student-group-presses-supreme-court-to-fast-track-unc-affirmative-action-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-group-presses-supreme-court-to-fast-track-unc-affirmative-action-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Group Presses Supreme Court To Fast-Track UNC Affirmative Action Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudent-group-presses-supreme-court-to-fast-track-unc-affirmative-action-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1004207&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.6\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Group wants the justices to review the case alongside a similar challenge to Harvard<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1228093556_736x514.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/fb_image-6.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1228093556_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1228093556_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/kevin-daley\/\" title=\"Posts by Kevin Daley\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Kevin Daley<\/a> \u2022 November 12, 2021 4:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"132.68141962422\">\n<p>An advocacy group pushing the Supreme Court to overturn Harvard&#8217;s race-conscious admissions policies on Thursday filed a petition that charges the University of North Carolina with anti-Asian bias.<\/p>\n<p>The advocacy group, Students for Fair Admissions, asked the justices to fast-track a case against UNC that is still being processed in lower courts. The group is petitioning the Court to review the case alongside its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/supreme-court-pressed-to-take-up-harvard-affirmative-action-case\/\">landmark challenge<\/a> to Harvard&#8217;s admissions practices, which it asked the justices to take up in February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Supreme Court decides, as it should, to reconsider racial preferences in college admissions, it should consider that question in the context of both a private school and a public school,&#8221; Students for Fair Admissions president Edward Blum said. &#8220;And it should resolve that question under both Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The request is a reminder that the Supreme Court is facing a wave of affirmative action cases. Separate attacks on affirmative action are unfolding across the country and will reach the justices in due course, even if the Court refuses to hear the Harvard and UNC disputes. For example, a challenge to race-conscious admissions policies at the University of Texas is pending before the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n<p>Both matters ask the Supreme Court to overturn a foundational affirmative action decision, <em>Grutter<\/em> v. <em>Bollinger<\/em>, and forbid consideration of race in college admissions. In <em>Grutter<\/em>, the Supreme Court said colleges may consider race as one factor among many on a case-by-case basis. <em>Grutter<\/em> involved an unsuccessful attack on affirmative action policies at the University of Michigan Law School.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is a private institution, Harvard is subject to federal anti-discrimination laws because it accepts federal dollars each year. UNC, on the other hand, is a public school, so the plaintiffs can attack its program on statutory and constitutional grounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This case and <em>Harvard<\/em> should be heard together,&#8221; Thursday&#8217;s petition reads. &#8220;The first question presented in both cases is the same: whether this Court should overrule <em>Grutter<\/em> and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions. This Court can resolve that momentous question in either case. But if it decides to revisit <em>Grutter<\/em>, its analysis would be more complete if it considered both a private university (Harvard) and a public university (UNC) and both the Constitution (UNC) and Title VI (Harvard and UNC).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UNC awards racial preferences to African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, but not to Asians. The university considers the first three groups underrepresented on campus as compared with North Carolina&#8217;s population. In contrast, Asians account for about 12 percent of UNC&#8217;s student body and 3 percent of the state population.<\/p>\n<p>Students for Fair Admissions on the same day in 2014 filed lawsuits that accused Harvard and UNC of unlawful race discrimination. The UNC case lagged through the court system behind the Harvard dispute. A federal trial court ruled for Harvard in 2019, and a federal appeals court did the same a year later. In contrast, it took almost seven years for the UNC case to reach trial. U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs in Winston-Salem, N.C., ruled for the university on Oct. 18.<\/p>\n<p><em>Grutter<\/em>, decided in 2003, predicted that affirmative action would end 25 years in the future. In contrast, Biggs said race-conscious admissions are a permanent &#8220;institutional obligation to be broadly and equitably administered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While no student can or should be admitted to this university, or any other, based solely on race, because race is so interwoven in every aspect of the lived experience of minority students, to ignore it, reduce its importance and measure it only by statistical models as [Students for Fair Admissions] has done, misses important context,&#8221; Biggs wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing the Harvard and UNC cases together would be consistent with <em>Grutter<\/em>. The justices decided to hear <em>Grutter<\/em> after a federal appeals court upheld Michigan Law School&#8217;s affirmative action policies. A separate legal challenge to Michigan&#8217;s undergraduate admissions criteria was not as far along, but the Court heard that lawsuit alongside <em>Grutter<\/em> to consider affirmative action at multiple levels of higher education.<\/p>\n<p>The Court often fast-tracks closely linked cases. For example, the justices in October&nbsp;expedited review of two separate legal challenges to Texas&#8217;s abortion law, one from clinics in the state and another from the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>The case is <em>Students for Fair Admissions<\/em> v. <em>University of North Carolina<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View SFFA v. UNC cert petition on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/539199268\/SFFA-v-UNC-cert-petition#from_embed\"><em>SFFA<\/em> v. <em>UNC<\/em> cert petition<\/a> by <em><a title=\"View Washington Free Beacon&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/publisher\/247263517\/Washington-Free-Beacon#from_embed\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts Group wants the justices to review the case alongside a similar challenge to Harvard  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \/ Getty Images &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}