Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case To Lower Court

The Supreme Court hands down a ruling in a Texas affirmative action case, sending it back to a lower court to try again in a 7-1 decision.

FOX News Radio’s Jared Halpern reports from outside the Supreme Court:

A lower court decision upholding the admissions policy at the University of Texas is struck down. But it does not resolve the issue of racial-based college admissions. Justice Kennedy writing in the Opinion of the Court the district court and court of appeals can find the strict scrutiny inquiry in too narrow a way by deferring to to the university’s good faith in its use of racial classification. The court vacating that judgment. But fairness to the litigants and the courts that heard the case requires that it be remanded so the admissions process can be considered and judged under a correct analysis.

In plain English: the Supreme Court telling the lower court, it needs to try again.

At the U.S. Supreme Court, Jared Halpern, FOX News Radio.

CLICK HERE to read the Opinion of the Court in Fisher vs. The University of Texas.