Edward Blum, founder of POFR, a conservative advocacy group, connected Fisher with Wiley Rein LLP, the Washington, D.C.
The website for the Project on Fair Representation reads: "For the next few years, POFR will devote all of its efforts to influencing jurisprudence, public policy, and public attitudes regarding race and ethnicity in four arenas: voting, education, contracting and employment" Such efforts aren't new challenges to expanding voting rights and educational opportunity have been bitterly fought throughout American history, through recent times with 2003's Grutter v.