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Although Justice Gorsuch joined the majority opinion, his concurrence emphasized that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act bars affirmative action. That statute barred discrimination "on the ground of" race, so Justice Gorsuch reasoned that affirmative action was forbidden by statute regardless of any constitutional arguments. [60]
Black student enrollment at Harvard Law took a nosedive after the Supreme Court ruled against race-based admissions last year. The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major ruling on affirmative ...
The steep decline follows the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to ban affirmative action in college admissions. Harvard was a defendant named in one of the lawsuits brought by Students for Fair ...
The challengers, Students for Fair Admissions, argued that Harvard's practice of affirmative action and their "personal" rating system sets the bar higher for Asian-American students than other ...
In 2016, the last time the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action, the justices narrowly upheld the admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin on a 4-3 vote, with conservative ...
[1] [2] In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that affirmative action programs in college admissions (excepting military academies) are unconstitutional. SFFA has been described by its opponents as an anti-affirmative action group that objects to the use of race as one of the factors in college ...
A spokesperson for Harvard on Tuesday said the university has been reviewing its admissions policies to ensure compliance with the law since the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.
Harvard (2023), the Supreme Court majority ruled that race-based affirmative action in college admissions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, with concurrences highlighting race-based affirmative action's violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Affirmative action remains controversial in American politics.