Affirmative Action and Colorblindness from the Original Position

In this Aricle, the author explores Grutter v. Bollinger from the vantage point of the colorblindness principle. He posits that the Grutter decision is noteworthy for two reasons First, the Court rejected the argument that the Constitution is colorblind and that classifications based on race are per se unconstitutional Secon4 the Court explicitly recognized that racial categonzations are not all morally equivalent. The author uses classical hb'eralism as a heuristic for exploring whether the colorblindness argument is necessarily a moral imperative. He ultimately concludes that the Court adopted the coect approach in Grutter in rejecting the allure of the colorblindness principle.