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MAY 21, 2001

The Supreme Court on Thursday will consider whether to accept a case challenging affirmative action programs at universities throughout the country.

A group called the Center for Individual Rights has been trying cases that have resulted in the invalidation of affirmative action at various schools. But there is a conflict in law among the different jurisdictions as some courts have upheld them while others have struck them down.

The difference may be resolved by the Supreme Court. Some, however, worry that if the Court accepts the case and asks the Bush administration for its view, the White House won't support affirmative action programs because the Solicitor General nominee Theodore B. Olson successfully argued a 1996 case that struck down race-based policies in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Olson's nomination is currently mired in a dispute over testimony he gave about his involvement in an anti-Clinton magazine project.

On the campaign trail, Bush said he doesn't support quotas.

Get the Story:
Affirmative Action Again Facing a Court Test (The Washington Post 5/21)

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