Is race-based policymaking constitutional—or is it discrimination in disguise? In this episode of Politics with the Big Dogs, host Anthony Holm welcomes Edward Blum, the conservative legal strategist behind Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court case that gutted affirmative action in college admissions.
Blum outlines why he believes equal protection means race neutrality, not race preference. He walks through the constitutional principles at stake, the long road to victory in the courts, and the legal battle still ahead.
This is not about political correctness. It’s about the Constitution.
ABOUT THE GUEST: Edward Blum is the president of Students for Fair Admissions, a membership organization whose mission is to eliminate racial and ethnic classifications and preferences in school admissions. Shortly after SFFA’s inception in 2014, the group challenged in federal court the racial admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
In 2023, the United States Supreme Court struck down the use of race as an admissions factor at all colleges and universities. He is the president of the newly formed American Alliance for Equal Rights, which has filed over a dozen lawsuits challenging the use of race by corporations, law firms, venture capital firms and cultural institutions. Mr. Blum also serves as the President of the Project on Fair Representation, a nonprofit legal foundation formed in 2005 that has provided counsel in a number of race-related U.S. Supreme Court cases, including Shelby Co. Alabama v. Holder, Fisher v. University of Texas (I and II) and Evenwel v. Abbott.
Since 2005, Blum has been a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies legal and policy issues relating to race and ethnicity. He is the author of a book on the Voting Rights Act, numerous essays and law review articles, and is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and National Review, among others.
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