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Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have opposed affirmative action; the remaining three conservative justices had no track record of opposing affirmative action prior to the ruling, although a 1999 article Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in The Wall Street Journal signaled he would end it. The liberal Sotomayor has repeatedly and proudly ...
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 ...
BOSTON (AP) — There was a slight decline in the number of Black students in Harvard University’s freshman class, the first admitted since a Supreme Court ruling struck down affirmative action ...
[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.
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 ...
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.