asking and answering in many different ways. how much does skin color matter? if you think it s a closed book, well, abigail fisher may have thought so, too. until she got a rejection letter from the university of texas in 2008. race is one of several factors that ut considers in applicants who don t get in automatically based on their grades. abigail says her race may have cost her a texas education. and today as we speak, the highest court in the land is hearing her very case. it is the supreme court s first so-called affirmative action case in a full decade almost. and the outcome of this case could reach far beyond college admissions. cnn s senior legal analyst and an expert on the supreme court, jeffrey toobin, joins me this hour live from san francisco. and jeff, before i tap into your extraordinary wealth of expertise on the supreme court and get your insight, i want to lay some groundwork and let our colleague, joe johns, come in first and tell everyone just more abou
thought so, too. until she got a rejection letter from the university of texas in 2008. race is one of several factors that ut considers in applicants who don t get in automatically based on their grades. abigail says her race may have cost her a texas education. and today as we speak, the highest court in the land is hearing her very case. it is the supreme court s first so-called affirmative action case in a full decade almost. and the outcome of this case could reach far beyond college admissions. cnn s senior legal analyst and an expert on the supreme court, jeffrey toobin, joins me this hour live from san francisco. and jeff, before i tap into your extraordinary wealth of expertise on the supreme court and get your insight, i want to lay some groundwork and let our colleague, joe johns, come in first and tell everyone just more about how this case came to be. reporter: abigail fisher dream of going to the university of texas at austin for most of her life. after applyi