{"id":1399,"date":"2013-06-26T18:41:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T22:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/26\/the-legal-future-of-affirmative-action\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:51:01","slug":"the-legal-future-of-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-legal-future-of-affirmative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court and affirmative action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7113\" style=\"width: 139px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rod-smolla.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7113\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7113 lazyload\" title=\"rod-smolla\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rod-smolla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"188\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 129px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 129\/188;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rod Smolla<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court this week decided Fisher v. University of Texas. It did not decide, however, what the future affirmative action in American higher education would be. Instead, it put off for a future day any definitive ruling on the rules of engagement for affirmative action. In an op-ed about the decision for <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>, Furman president Rod Smolla wrote that \u201crather than rule on the merits of affirmative action, seven of eight Justices simply held that the lower court had not applied the correct legal standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2013\/06\/27\/essay-meaning-supreme-court-ruling-affirmative-action\">Read the op-ed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court this week decided Fisher v. University of Texas. It did not decide, however, what the future affirmative action in American higher education would be. Instead, it put off for a future day any definitive ruling on the rules of engagement for affirmative action. In an op-ed about the decision for\u00a0<em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>, Furman president Rod Smolla wrote that \u201crather than rule on the merits of affirmative action, seven of eight Justices simply held that the lower court had not applied the correct legal standard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}