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FISHER v. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 

GINSBURG, J., dissenting 

539 U. S., at 333–343; Bakke, 438 U. S., at 315–320. 

The  Court  rightly  declines  to  cast  off  the  equal  protec-
tion  framework  settled  in  Grutter.  See  ante,  at  5.  Yet  it 
stops  short  of  reaching  the  conclusion  that  framework 
warrants.    Instead,  the  Court  vacates  the  Court  of  Ap-
peals’  judgment  and  remands  for  the  Court  of  Appeals  to
“assess  whether  the  University  has  offered  sufficient 
evidence [to] prove that its admissions program is narrowly 
tailored  to  obtain  the  educational  benefits  of  diversity.” 
Ante, at 13.  As I see it, the Court of Appeals has already 
completed  that  inquiry,  and  its  judgment,  trained  on  this 
Court’s  Bakke  and  Grutter  pathmarkers,  merits  our 
approbation.4 

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For  the  reasons  stated,  I  would  affirm  the  judgment  of

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the Court of Appeals. 

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4 Because the University’s admissions policy, in my view, is constitu-
tional  under  Grutter,  there  is  no  need  for  the  Court  in  this  case  “to 
revisit  whether  all  governmental  classifications  by  race,  whether 
designed  to  benefit  or  to  burden  a  historically  disadvantaged  group,
should be subject to the same standard of judicial review.”  539 U. S., at 
346,  n.  (GINSBURG,  J.,  concurring).    See  also  Gratz  v.  Bollinger,  539 
U. S.  244,  301  (2003)  (GINSBURG,  J.,  dissenting)  (“Actions  designed  to
burden  groups  long  denied  full  citizenship  stature  are  not  sensibly
ranked  with  measures  taken  to  hasten  the  day  when  entrenched
discrimination and its aftereffects have been extirpated.”).