SCOTUSblog on camera: Edward Blum (Part four)

The role of politics on thebench; focusing on education; the Roberts Court, the Supreme Court,and thehistorical arc of race and ethnicity; and a timeline for getting out of the classification business.

In this five-part interview, Edward BlumVisiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Founder and President of the Project on Fair Representationdiscusses hisbackground, running for Congress,and moving from public finance to political advocacy to Supreme Court litigation; the meeting of race, ethnicity and religion; the desire tomake big law and how to read Supreme Court signals; and success building cases from the ground upfromBush v. Vera,NAMUDNOv. Holder,andShelby County v. HoldertoFisher v. University of Texas at Austinand beyondwithpeople of good will.