The supreme court did not come to this decision by itself. Various lower courts make rulings and if they are repealed enough then the case may go all the way to the supreme court. Even then, the Supreme court considers precedents from previous rulings. It is important to consider those decisions in the context of Fisher’s case. Affirmative action programs began under president Lyndon B. Johnson. The supreme court first ruled on affirmative action in Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke, the supreme court ruled that racial quotas are unconstitutional. The supreme court ruled that racial quotas did not provide equality of opportunity. The court added that affirmative action would be allowed as long as they served a “compelling government
