Justice O'Connor Sees 'Muddy' Future for Affirmative Action

Sandra Day O'Connor is not confident that her 2003 Supreme Court opinion upholding race-conscious college admissions will long hold much sway.

Speaking this month at the National Press Club, the retired associate justice said, "The future of affirmative action in higher education today is certainly muddy." She cited Michigan voters' adoption this past fall of an amendment to the state Constitution banning affirmative-action preferences, as well as the passage of similar measures in

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