Affirmative Action Won, But Now It Faces A Far Bigger Threat

Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones
Fri, 06/24/2016 - 10:32am

Samuel Alito knows how to play the long game. The Supreme Court justice might find himself increasingly authoring dissents for the minority side of the eight-member court, following the February death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but that doesn't keep him from trying to move the ball on ideological issues he cares about.

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