Affirmative Action Is in the Supreme Courtβs Crosshairs
And the man (Edward Blum) who got it there is not, as he likes to claim, an iconoclastic one-person organization.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/affirmative-action-edward-blum/
By the close of June, the Supreme Court will almost certainly end affirmative action in college admissions. ...

Affirmative Action Is in the Supreme Courtβs Crosshairs
And the man who got it there is not, as he likes to claim, an iconoclastic one-person organization.
The Nation... For Edward Blum, who spearheaded the lawsuits against the University of North Carolina and Harvard - claiming the schools' race-conscious policies admit unqualified Black and Hispanic students, while "intentionally discriminating" against deserving Asian American applicants - the verdict would fulfill a decades-long quest.
... Blum has made a career of recruiting plaintiffs to challenge civil rights he opposes. His wins include Shelby County v. Holder in 2013, which nullified key provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Less successful was Fisher v. University of Texas, decided in 2016, his first attempt to have the court undo affirmative action ...
... Though Blum calls himself a "one-man organization," his work is financed by familiar right-wing entities. The Project on Fair Representation, one of Blum's many litigation nonprofits, began as an internal program of Donors Trust, a funding vehicle bankrolled by conservative mega-donors, including the Koch, DeVos, and Mercer families.