American Justice 2014. Garrett Epps

No opinion she had written to date would gain more attention than the one she read in a case called Schuette v. Coalition to Preserve and Defend Affirmative Action.

      Schuette arose out of the ongoing bitter battle against race-conscious affirmative action in college and university admissions. Many people believe that any use of race in the admissions process—even to open up institutions that were, until a generation or two ago, all white—disadvantages white people (and some other groups, like Asian Americans), stigmatizes nonwhites who “benefit” from it, and violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.