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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plus, careful review of the decision indicates that the door is left open for future challenges.  As a practical matter, though, the Court will soon have a 7-2 liberal majority (Thomas and [b]Kennedy[/b] will retire soon, I think).  So it seems like Justice Marshall's view that affirmative action will endure for centuries more is, in fact, accurate.  [/quote]

Didn't Kennedy write this opinion?  And didn't he based his decision on deference to the school's stated need for diversity -- which is not at all a strict scrutiny analysis.  But I'm just going on what I read in a news account, not the actual opinion.[/quote]

It could be argued that strict scrutiny was only given lip service.  And the point I was trying to make is that with a 7-2 liberal majority coming soon ([b]Kennedy is unpredictable on these issues[/b]), there will be zero chance of the Court upholding challenges to affirmative action.  So there it is.[/quote]

True. I would have expected him to go the other way. His rationale was questionable here IMHO, (as in Bush v. Gore in 2000), but it is what it is.[/quote]

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