Its pledges to unwind a decades-old race-based affirmativeactionpolicy designed to give a leg up to the majority ethnic-Malay population and reduce corruption have a strong appeal among mostly younger voters, analysts say.
Just for starters, two years ago, the affirmativeaction case out of the University of Michigan, you know, she was the person who wrote the opinion that said that the affirmativeactionpolicy at the University of Michigan Law School, not the undergraduate school, was constitutional.
In the current term, the court is deciding a case involving an affirmative-action policy at the University of Texas, and the court may reverse at least part of a 2003 ruling that allowed some consideration of race in university admissions.