So, do you think the ruling will be 5-4 upholding the UM system?
I think the court is going to uphold, with a serious warning and without stepping on any previous rulings. This does get muddied up by politics. Clarence Thomas has no objections to race as a factor.
Scalia has some good points
"The people you want to talk to are the high school seniors who have seen people visibly less qualified than they are get into prestigious institutions where they are rejected. If you think that is not creating resentment, you are just wrong."
He is so right.
Why shouldn't Michigan be entitled to have a superior law school and create greater diversity using affirmative action much like Yale, Harvard and Stanford already do
Scalia and his conservative colleagues are making a traditional and not irrational argument. That is, if you want to be an ivy league first rate college -then you want the best qualified students. If you want a college that is diverse, than do it by lowering your academic standards for admissions and stop using "disguised quota" 's (Kennedy).
Prediction (you see my picture): In the coming years The UC and CSU education systems of California will no longer accept freshman or sophmore classes and will only be upper division schools - making admissions based on the students performance at Community College. Children will have to compete to get into PRIVATE community colleges -you heard me. Parents, start saving for your kids designer preppy upper class PRIVATE community college!