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OPINION: Blum, who is now going after affirmative action in the workplace, seems determined to dismantle everything that levels the playing field in America for Black people. If I were asked to ...
Edward Blum, the legal strategist behind the Supreme Court case that dismantled affirmative action in college admissions, has filed a lawsuit against the director of the Smithsonian’s ...
Read more opinions on theGrio. And if they do, you can thank Edward Blum. Blum, head of the group Students for Fair Admissions, is behind the anti-affirmative action lawsuit before the court ...
Students for Fair Admissions is the creation of Edward Blum. Blum is not a lawyer, but he has a long history of crafting legal attacks on civil rights. Failing in Fisher, Blum baldly strategized that ...
Edward Blum isn’t quite a household name. But at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., he’s a minor celebrity. The conservative think tank has played host to an array of high-profile ...
Even those eventually hailed as prophets risk being dismissed as cranks. Edward Blum has courted such disdain in the decades he has dedicated to opposing race-conscious policies in America.
In a 2-1 ruling, the appeals court ruled that the American Alliance for Equal Rights, led by conservative activist Ed Blum, was likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program illegally ...
Now, Edward Blum, who was behind the attack on affirmative action in the SFFA case, and other conservative litigants intent on blocking racial justice efforts have a new strategy: remake the ...
In the letters, obtained by Inside Higher Ed, SFFA president Ed Blum said he was “deeply concerned” that the institutions had violated the affirmative action ban. After some selective colleges ...