>I found myself wondering how in the world they'd actually manage this and not be violating the universities' free speech One of the primary justifications I k

>I found myself wondering how in the world they'd actually manage this and not be violating the universities' free speech One of the primary justifications I keep hearing for Affirmative Action is that legacy admissions are predominantly white, so minorities need an extra edge in non-legacy admissions to balance out the race quotas. If we take this to be true and assume that Affirmative Action is off the table then naturally it's necessary to eliminate legacy admissions. Of course, you're right that there's no real point in enacting laws if they aren't going to punish institutions who violate them.