By The FirstThe United States Supreme Court rejected Affirmative Action Thursday, saying colleges and universities can no longer consider race during the application process.
From CNBC:
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the affirmative action admission policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which gave weight to a would-be student’s race, are unconstitutional.
The court’s majority opinion, which all six conservative justices joined in, said that both Harvard’s and UNC’s affirmative action programs “unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.”
“We have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will not do so today,” the opinion said.
The majority said that the universities’ policies violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a sharp dissent to the opinion, said, “Today, this Court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress.”
