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On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Harvard that, by a vote of 6–2, reversed the lower court ruling. In writing the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts held that affirmative action in college admissions is unconstitutional.
The nation’s second Black justice has long wanted to end a policy he benefited from because he says it exacted too high of a psychic and social toll on him. In Ending Affirmative Action ...
The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action at University of North Carolina and Harvard, ends the systematic consideration of race in the admissions process. ... opinion conservative Justice ...
Students and others gather at Harvard University’s Science Center Plaza to rally in support of affirmative action after the Supreme Court ruling on July 1, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The high court agreed in a majority opinion written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. The ruling noted that the appellate court found Harvard's affirmative action program resulted in fewer ...
[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 ...
As of 2024, Thomas is the most recent Supreme Court justice to be confirmed by a Senate controlled by the opposing party of the appointing president. The 99 days during which Thomas's nomination was pending in the Senate was the second-longest of the 16 nominees receiving a final vote since 1975, second only to Bork's 108 days. [136]
The decisions overhaul a string of Supreme Court cases that address the role of race in institutionalized education, starting with the high court’s landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of ...