Legal_Reasoning

Legal Reasoning LEGAL REASONING It is important to understand the ways in which our courts in this country work. It is even more important to know how legal reasoning is the basis for our systems credibility. How does the U.S. Supreme Court reach certain decisions using our constitution' In what ways is the constitution interpreted, stretched, and even abused' I intend to answer these questions as well as the role partisanship plays in decision-making. This will be done under the context of the current U.S. Supreme Court case, Grutter v. Bollinger. It is virtually impossible to avoid controversial court decisions. However, legal reasoning, when properly utilized, limits social dissent and lends faith back to the legal system. Nobody can claim that our constitution anticipates and addresses everything but it certainly provides the framework from which we can begin. Barbara Grutter was an unsuccessful applicant to University of Michigan Law School. Grutter, despite academic sufficiency, believes she was denied because of the current admissions standards exercised at the law school. Grutter, a white woman, claims that the schools goal of achieving a diverse student body is discrimination and violates the equal protection clause set forth legal, reasoning, court, admissions, school, grutter, law, bakke, ways, university, supreme, policy, decision, case, using, set, schools, precedent, interest, fourteenth, forth, federal, constitution, amendment, years, white, under, student, race, protection, properly, important, even, equal, diverse