North Carolina is urging the Supreme Court to throw out a watchdog group’s challenge to the University of North Carolina’s partially race-based admission policies. The case is Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. University of North Carolina, court file 21-707, an appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) describes itself as “a nonprofit membership group of more than 20,000 students, parents, and others who believe that racial classifications and preferences in college admissions are unfair, unnecessary, and unconstitutional.” In its still-pending petition before the Supreme Court, the Arlington, Virginia-based SFFA argued that the court has wrongly “abandoned the principle of racial neutrality” and given “broad deference to university administrators to pursue a diversity interest that is far from compelling.” The precedents the court follows have become “a license to engage in outright racial balancing.” In October, a federal district judge ruled in …