Sixteen weeks after the Supreme Court gave public colleges and universities a chance to continue using race as a factor in choosing their entering classes. but only within tight new limits, the Court moves on to decide whether that practice can be banned altogether by a state. The closeness in timing of the June decision in Fisher v. University of Texas and the Tuesday afternoon hearing is a mere coincidence, but it illustrates that the current Supreme Court has a keen fascination with, and a rising skepticism about, issues of race.
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