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Harvard filed an opposing brief seeking to have SFFA's petition rejected by the Supreme Court. [48] [49] In June 2021 the Court requested that the U.S. government submit a brief of its stance on the case, [50] and in December the Solicitor General of the United States under the Biden administration urged the Supreme Court to reject the appeal. [51]
The Supreme Court decided two cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions, a group headed by Edward Blum, a conservative legal strategist who has spent years fighting affirmative action.
In June 2023, the Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion that ruled affirmative action programs in college admissions unconstitutional. [ 12 ] In September 2023, the SFFA filed a lawsuit challenging the use of race and ethnicity as admissions factors at the United States Military Academy , as the Supreme Court exempted military academies from ...
The US Supreme Court struck down decades of legal precedent that allowed colleges and universities to consider race as a factor in admissions. The court on Thursday specifically ruled against race ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious student admissions programs currently used at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in a sharp setback to ...
The United States District Court heard Fisher v. University of Texas in 2009 and upheld the legality of the university's admission policy in a summary judgment. The case was appealed to the Fifth Circuit which also ruled in the university's favor. The Supreme Court agreed on February 21, 2012, to hear the case.
The nomination and confirmation of justices to the Supreme Court of the United States involves several steps, the framework for which is set forth in the United States Constitution. Specifically, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 , provides that the president of the United States nominates a justice and that the United States Senate provides ...
The Supreme Court in a pair of cases Thursday severely limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, upending decades of affirmative action programs that U.S. institutions have used ...