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The Supreme Court's recent ruling to overturn affirmative action means that Colleges and universities can no longer consider race in admission policies. Here how the ruling affects students.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito had opposed affirmative action; the remaining three conservative justices had no track record of opposing affirmative action before the ruling, although a 1999 article Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in The Wall Street Journal signaled he would end it. Justice Sotomayor had repeatedly and proudly said she ...
The ruling ensured that statewide bans on same-sex marriage could not be held up as constitutional. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard: 2023 600 U.S. 181 race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions are unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Sowell writes that affirmative action policies encourage non-preferred groups to designate themselves as members of preferred groups [i.e., primary beneficiaries of affirmative action] to take advantage of group preference policies; that they tend to benefit primarily the most fortunate among the preferred group (e.g., upper and middle class ...
The ruling noted that the appellate court found Harvard's affirmative action program resulted in fewer admissions of Asian American students and that the Ivy League campus' assertion that race was ...
The ruling is another example of the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, delivering on the long-held goals of conservative legal activists. It follows in the wake of the seismic ruling ...
A recent poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that over 60% of Americans are in favor of affirmative action in college admissions and don’t support ...
In a critical ruling, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina on Thursday, upsetting a 45-year precedent and putting an end to the ...