Judicial Threats to Academe's 'Four Freedoms'

On December 4, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two significant affirmative-action cases. Each case — one from Seattle and the other from Louisville — involves the constitutional validity of school-district plans that consider race in assigning students to public schools. Determined parents from both cities will ask the court to declare the assignment plans unconstitutional and, in the process, to abandon or modify legal principles articulated three years ago in

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