Supreme Court Likely To End Affirmative Action

The New York Times reports:

The race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina seemed to be in peril at the Supreme Court on Monday. By the end of five hours of vigorous and sometimes testy arguments, a majority of the justices appeared ready to reconsider decades of precedents and to rule that the programs were unlawful.

Such a ruling could jeopardize affirmative action at elite colleges and universities around the nation, decreasing the representation of Black and Latino students and raising the number of white and Asian ones.

Members of the court’s six-justice conservative majority asked skeptical questions about the interest in educational diversity that the court has said justifies taking race into account in admissions decisions.

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The Supreme Court is revisiting affirmative action. And there’s every likelihood that the conservative justices will overrule some — or all — of those precedents.https://t.co/O4The4BRXX

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