Supreme Court opens a historic term with challenges to past liberal rulings on race, affirmative action, voting rights -- and its first Black female justice.
The Supreme Court opens a historic term Monday by welcoming its first Black woman to the bench as it faces challenges to past liberal rulings on race, affirmative action and voting rights.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joins a court whose conservative majority has put itself on a collision course with progressives and civil rights advocates who insist that equal opportunity and fair representation requires considering race.
Roberts now has five conservatives on his right who showed they are ready and willing to make major changes in the law. In recent years, Roberts has tried, not always successfully, to forge narrow or middle-ground rulings that avoid sharp changes in the law. The universities said they do not set quotas, but consider a student’s race as one factor when choosing among highly qualified applicants. In doing so, they said they follow the court’s precedents on diversity that began with Bakke.
That long-standing idea may face a new challenge, lawyers say, if the court rules that race-based policies at private universities violate the civil rights act. Meanwhile, in another clash over the role of race, the court will decide whether states must sometimes draw election districts where a Black or Latino candidate has a stronger chance of winning a seat in Congress, the state legislature or a local board.
Voting rights advocates sued the state last November and argued its new election map for the decade ahead diluted the voting power of African Americans. After blocking a second Black majority district in Alabama, the court agreed to rule on whether the Voting Rights Act calls for considering race when states draw election districts. That case, Merrill vs. Milligan, will be argued Oct. 4.
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