SCOTUSblog on camera: Edward Blum (Part four)

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

In this five-part interview, Edward Blum – Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Founder and President of the Project on Fair Representation – discusses his background, running for Congress, and moving from public finance to political advocacy to Supreme Court litigation; the meeting of race, ethnicity and religion; the desire to “make big law” and how to read Supreme Court signals; and success building cases from the ground up – from Bush v. Vera, NAMUDNO v. Holder, and Shelby County v. Holder to Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin and beyond – with “people of good will.” (Fabrizio di Piazza)