Harvard & UNC affirmative action cases to be argued on Oct 31

[NewYorkExpress]

I suspect we'll have either 6-3 or 5-4 decisions to overturn Grutter with a non-zero chance at a 7-2 vote to overturn (Sotomayor and Brown Jackson being the only obvious votes to uphold. While I think Kagan vote to uphold Grutter, I can see her going the other way, if the courts decision is narrowly applied, for example the court rules that it's similar to the old Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, and allows schools that don't have a prior discrimination history to not use affirmative action at all, while requiring all schools to continue to do so.)