Supreme Court rejects affirmative action at colleges

Norman Ray

Global Courant

The High Council ruled on Thursday that the affirmative action admissions policy of Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional.

The ruling is a huge blow to decades-old efforts to boost minority enrollment in US universities through policies that take applicants’ race into account.

Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion, in which all five of his fellow conservative justices participated, said that both Harvard’s and UNC’s affirmative action programs “inevitably use race in a negative way, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful endpoints.”

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Affirmative action advocates in higher education gather before the U.S. Supreme Court for oral argument in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina on October 31, 2022 in Washington, DC.

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Her fellow Liberal, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said: “Today this Court stands in the way and undoes decades of precedent and momentous progress.”

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