Subject: POLITICO Breaking News
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 07:53:04 -0600

The Supreme Court has again agreed to wade into the issue of affirmative action in higher education, announcing Monday that it will consider whether the courts gave close enough scrutiny when they upheld the University of Texas' program to create racial diversity on campus. The case the justices agreed to hear, Fisher v. University of Texas, will give the court's conservative justices another chance to rein in or eliminate race-based preferences at colleges and university. The high court took up the same case two years ago, producing a 7-1 decision holding that lower courts were not demanding enough in their review of the UT program. A federal appeals court took another look at the program
 and held again that it passed constitutional muster. Justice Elena Kagan recused herself from the decision to take up the case again. Her absence raises the prospect that the justices could wind up splitting evenly, which would result in no binding precedent for other cases.

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