Affirmative Action

With the court already having heard arguments this term on abortion and guns, this case marks yet another politically charged issue that threatens to uproot decades of legal doctrine.

President Trump’s decision to roll back Obama-era guidelines supporting race-based college admissions could mean another legal challenge for UT…

From Texas Standard:Harvard College is facing a major discrimination suit, alleging that its system of considering race as a factor in making admission…

The Trump administration is rescinding Obama-era guidance to colleges and universities that encouraged schools to take a person's race into account in…

From Texas Standard:On Tuesday, the New York Times published a bombshell report that could rekindle the debate over affirmative action in Texas colleges…

For about a year starting in June 2016, the practice of affirmative action in Texas university admissions seemed secure. The University of Texas at Austin…

From Texas Standard:Plaintiffs have filed a new lawsuit challenging the University of Texas at Austin's race-based admission rules. Unlike a well-known…

The man who helped Abigail Fisher sue the University of Texas at Austin for discrimination in a case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court twice is suing…

From Texas Standard:The court upheld an affirmative action program at the University of Texas at Austin, ending a legal battle that started in 2008.In…

Toward the end of the affirmative action arguments, Justice Antonin Scalia questioned whether the University of Texas' admission of minority students was really beneficial to those students.