Harvey Silverglate

The deciding vote was Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

She wrote a very famous opinion in which she said,

I hesitate to vote to keep up, to affirm the notion of affirmative action, because it's such an obvious violation of equal protection.

But we have an urgent problem in the society.

We are not educating our members of racial and ethnic minorities, and we have to try to get them into our colleges.

So I think it should be approved for 25 years.

In 25 years, it should have performed its role.

Well, it hasn't.

And the 25 years is coming up.

I think it's three or four years left.

The Supreme Court is going to abolish it.

You can take my word for that.

Because it is such an obvious violation of equal protection.

Why did affirmative action come into play?

Because the secondary and elementary schools are so bad.

Public secondary and elementary schools are so bad.

Why are they so bad?

Partly because of the control that the Teachers Union has.

Randy Weingarten runs the public school system in the United States.

And what I have suggested is that