Can Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Save Affirmative Action?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : One reason for the doom and gloom about the prospects for affirmative action is that Chief Justice John Roberts, who is the most moderate of the six Supreme Court justices, is on record as disliking race-conscious government policies.
54% : Nonetheless, Brown Jackson is pursuing the routes most likely to give affirmative action a fighting chance of surviving.
47% : Her scathing, "in your face" style was credited by some with saving affirmative action in another case, ten years earlier.
41% : The plaintiffs suing Harvard University also claim that affirmative action violates federal civil rights law.
40% : Brown Jackson pressed the attorney for the plaintiff how, given the complexities of the college admissions process, they could show that any given student was rejected as a result of affirmative action.

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