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Political Science Written Assignment

Political Science Written Assignment

Grutter v . Bollinger

The issue of affirmative action promises to play a large role in future considerations of both US law-makers and the US Supreme Court . The striking contrast between the Grutter v . Bollinger decision in 2003 by the US Supreme Court which implicated that using factors of race as determinant factors in University admission policies , specifically , in the admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School , was constitutional . The more recent decision by the Supreme Court in the so-called "New Haven Firefighters " case resulted in

a "5-4 ruling in favor of white firefighters who sued New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr and the city over promotional exams (Carter , 2009 ,

. 1 . Within the span of less than a decade , the Supreme Court has , obviously , reflected a degree of ambiguity regarding the pragmatic function of affirmative action legislation . In to understand the reasons for this ambiguity , and the probable consequences of future legislative and judicial action in the area of affirmative action , it is useful to review the history of the two , disparate Supreme Court rulings

The ruling of the Supreme Court regarding Grutter v . Bollinger (2003 invited spirited debate as to whether or not the majority opinion in the case , which concluded that "factoring race into the admissions decisions of the University of Michigan Law School was compatible with the Constitution (Pollak , 2005 , in fact , represents an attempt of the court to engage in judicial activism . Justice O ' Connor , writing for the...

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