Edward Blum isn’t quite a household name ... A corps of public interest law groups has sprung up to litigate the SFFA decision in higher ed at prestigious law firms, on Wall Street and beyond. This ...

Mr Blum grew up in a liberal Jewish household in Texas but moved right in the 1980s (he was “the first Republican my mother ever met”). Since no Republican was running in his district, he stood for ...

the founder of SFFA, Edward Blum, and his allies argued that ending affirmative action would supposedly remove a racial barrier to Asian American access to highly selective colleges and universities.