Supreme Court hears cases challenging affirmative action in college admissions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The high court announced in January it would hear both cases involving affirmative action at the nation's oldest private and public universities.
51% : Washington -- The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a pair of cases challenging affirmative action in college admissions, with lawyers from a student group and a pair of schools squaring off before a court that has been reshaped since it considered the issue just six years ago.
51% : That rightward march has raised the stakes significantly for the future of affirmative action, with legal experts expecting the Supreme Court's strengthened six-member conservative majority to find race-conscious admissions policies to be outside constitutional bounds.
51% : Alongside the Harvard dispute, Students for Fair Admissions was mounting its second court fight targeting affirmative action at the University of North Carolina.
50% : "I would be absolutely shocked if the Supreme Court does not in one way or another eliminate affirmative action in higher education," said Jonathan Feingold, a law professor at Boston University who studies affirmative action.
45% :On the symbolic side, meanwhile, he said that if the Supreme Court finds race-conscious admissions policies are unlawful, what it's saying is "everything was fair and square until affirmative action arrived, and affirmative action, that is the thing that is somehow corrupting a process that's actually just rewarding the best and brightest.""That's the somewhat dominant, but highly contested narrative that speaks to this broader debate we're having in America right now," he said.
39% : Harvard, too, warned in its brief that if affirmative action in admissions is outlawed, representation of Black and Hispanic students would decline "significantly."

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