About affirmative action in front of SCOTUS. Wasn't there a case some

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40 years ago?

Bakka, or something? A white guy who was denied a place in medical school?

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1. Bakke decision 1978

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_regents.html&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiQv6CKyIv7AhX2kokEHX-zBqgQFnoECAQQAw&usg=AOvVaw39dXZ3CLYsTW7qN1VErdGh

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2. Yes--Bakke case. Nt

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3. Yes, as you see. It's been an issue for a long time.

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Sherrilyn Ifill
@SIfill_
The Supreme Court reviewed affirmative action in 1979, 2003, 2013, 2016. Each time is has upheld race conscious university admissions. It comes before the Court again only b/c opponents to affirmative action know they have an open door to continue to try & overturn it.

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4. What was the vote in each of those uphelds?

I'd love to see if it was close or not.

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5. Bakke, from above link 5-4

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6. Wow, I would have thought it would be 7-2 or something

The SC was liberal back then.

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7. Nixon appointed several justices and it turned conservative

Gotten more so over time

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9. Besides Rehnquist, who else was really conservative?

Nixon also appointed Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Justices Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell. Ford had one pick, John Paul Stevens.

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8. Roe redux?