The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina Thursday, ruling that both institutions were in violation of the Fourteenth *********.
The decision ends the practice of racial consideration in higher education admissions and overturns the high court’s 2003 ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger, which found that colleges could consider race as one factor in the admissions process to achieve a diverse student body.
“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “And the Equal Protection Clause, we have accordingly held, applies ‘without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality’—it is ‘universal in [its] application.’”
The chief justice concluded his opinion by saying that while colleges can consider an applicant’s “discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise … universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today.” The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina on Thursday. SHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The Supreme Court ruled that both institutions were in violation of the Fourteenth *********. AP
“[T]he student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race,” Roberts went on. “Many universities have for too long done just the opposite. And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”
Roberts was joined in his opinion by all five of his colleagues on the court’s conservative wing: Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch. The decision overturns a Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling, which found that colleges could consider race as one factor in the admissions process to have a diverse student body. AP U.S. Supreme Court justices: Seated (L-R): Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Elena Kagan. Standing (L-R): Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. REUTERS
The court’s three ********, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented in the UNC case, while Jackson — a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School as well as a former member of the university’s Board of Overseers, recused herself from the case involving the Ivy League school.
The decision ends the practice of racial consideration in higher education admissions and overturns the high court’s 2003 ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger, which found that colleges could consider race as one factor in the admissions process to achieve a diverse student body.
“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “And the Equal Protection Clause, we have accordingly held, applies ‘without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality’—it is ‘universal in [its] application.’”
The chief justice concluded his opinion by saying that while colleges can consider an applicant’s “discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise … universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today.” The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina on Thursday. SHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The Supreme Court ruled that both institutions were in violation of the Fourteenth *********. AP
“[T]he student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race,” Roberts went on. “Many universities have for too long done just the opposite. And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”
Roberts was joined in his opinion by all five of his colleagues on the court’s conservative wing: Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch. The decision overturns a Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling, which found that colleges could consider race as one factor in the admissions process to have a diverse student body. AP U.S. Supreme Court justices: Seated (L-R): Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Elena Kagan. Standing (L-R): Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. REUTERS
The court’s three ********, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented in the UNC case, while Jackson — a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School as well as a former member of the university’s Board of Overseers, recused herself from the case involving the Ivy League school.
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