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“A reversal will have a devastating impact, and anyone who says otherwise is simply not telling the truth.”
– Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, as the Supreme Court prepared to consider the appeal of Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin, after lower courts had affirmed the university’s affirmative action admissions procedures
This article appears in October 12 • 2012.
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