Who is abigail fisher

Fisher argues the top ten percent rule sufficiently increases diversity at UT. Therefore, considering race as a factor in holistic admission, Fisher argues, is unnecessary and unconstitutional. UT says its affirmative action policies consider race and ethnicity in a limited manner, consistent with prior court rulings. Seventy-five percent of students are admitted to UT through the top ten percent rule, and the remainder go through a holistic admissions process to become admitted to UT.

RSS Feed. Submit Search. The Daily Texan. Search this site Submit Search. Tweets by thedailytexan. Navigate Left. Navigate Right. In Shelby County, however, Blum was successful, and in the Supreme Court critically weakened the Voting Rights Act, with the predictable repercussion of racist voter suppression.

Blum is an obsessive worker. Even as he was shepherding Shelby County through the courts, he was searching for a plaintiff to file a case challenging affirmative action in college admissions. He went so far as to set up a website fishing for potential plaintiffs.

In Abigail, Blum found a white face for his lawsuit. Clearly, Fisher was not about Abigail. The Project on Fair Representation is one of many organizations that aims to advance a conservative agenda through the courts. It is unique only in its extremely small size and successful track record. The CIR was the principal backer of the case Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association which challenged the funding structure of public employee unions.

It appears that the conservative justices, who begged for such a case to be brought, had planned to use the First Amendment to further weaken organized labor. The first decade of the Roberts Court has been characterized by the aggressive promotion of a right-wing agenda. Pushing aside the reigning conservative doctrine of judicial restraint that emerged in response to the progressive decisions of the s and s, Roberts and the other conservative justices have consistently overruled precedents and interpreted the Constitution to benefit the powerful.

While Fisher was denied admission at UT's flagship campus, the university did offer her the opportunity to enroll at a satellite campus and later transfer to Austin. But she instead decided to enroll at Louisiana State University, which she graduated from in And I probably would have gotten a better job offer had I gone to UT.

Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost? News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. Part of HuffPost Politics. All rights reserved. She was a UT Austin legacy applicant. She applied in an extremely competitive year. Mark Wilson via Getty Images. An activist recruited her to take her case to court. She attended LSU and now works in finance.

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