{"id":1960342,"date":"2023-06-29T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:27:34","slug":"supreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court&#8217;s Landmark Ruling on University Affirmative Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1960342&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Supreme Court Rules Against Affirmative Action Policies at Harvard and UNC<\/h2>\n<p>In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has ruled against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/medical-professor-warned-colleagues-that-schools-racial-preferences-were-illegal-and-he-was-removed-from-directorship-now-hes-suing\/\" title=\"Medical Professor Warned Colleagues That School\u2019s Racial Preferences Were Illegal And He Was Removed From Directorship. Now He\u2019s Suing.\">affirmative action policies<\/a> of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. This ruling will have a profound effect on university admissions processes across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The court found that Harvard&#8217;s race-based admissions program violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, while the University of North Carolina violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was six to three in the University of North Carolina case and six to two in the Harvard case. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Harvard graduate and former board member, recused herself from the Harvard case.<\/p>\n<p>Justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett voted with the majority in both cases.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,\u201d Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the opinion for the majority.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The court&#8217;s opinion stated that universities may still consider an applicant&#8217;s discussion of how race affected their life, but they cannot establish an unlawful regime through application essays or other means.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor wrote dissents, with Sotomayor accusing the majority of further entrenching racial inequality in education.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cToday, this Court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress,\u201d Sotomayor wrote, adding that the court \u201ccements a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society where race has always mattered and continues to matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ruling resolves cases brought by students against Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The group Students for Fair Admissions sued the schools, alleging unfair treatment based on race in the admissions process.<\/p>\n<p>Students for Fair Admissions argued that Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, while the University of North Carolina violated the 14th Amendment&#8217;s equal protection clause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRacial classifications are wrong,\u201d said Patrick Strawbridge, the student group&#8217;s attorney, during opening arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs had asked the Supreme Court to overrule the 2003 case, Grutter v. Bollinger, which allowed the University of Michigan Law School to consider race in admissions. Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor had expressed the expectation that racial preferences would no longer be necessary in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>In the court&#8217;s opinion, Justice Roberts noted that two decades have passed since the Grutter decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTwenty years have passed since Grutter, with no end to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorney-supreme-court-has-historic-opportunity-to-end-race-based-college-admissions\/\" title=\"Attorney: Supreme Court Has \u2018Historic Opportunity\u2019 To End Race-Based College Admissions\">race-based college admissions<\/a> in sight. But the Court has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities\/\" title=\"Supreme Court's Landmark Ruling on University Affirmative Action\">permitted race-based college admissions<\/a> only within the confines of narrow restrictions: such admissions programs must comply with strict scrutiny, may never use race as a stereotype or negative, and must \u2014 at some point \u2014 end.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ruling will require hundreds of universities to find non-race-related ways to achieve diversity in their admissions and scholarship decisions. Some schools have already begun to move away from using standardized test scores and are considering other methods, such as requiring more essays or recruiting students from minority areas.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is expected to face future legal challenges from affirmative action supporters. However, a recent Reuters poll shows that a majority of Americans, 62%, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-supreme-court-is-poised-to-rule-on-affirmative-action-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\" title=\"Supreme Court to Decide on Affirmative Action: Key Points\">oppose race-based college admissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a breaking news story and will be updated.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of North Carolina&#8217;s program violated the Equal Protection Clause. This landmark ruling will reshape university admissions nationwide, as it deems race-based policies unlawful under federal law. Harvard and UNC must now revise their practices to ensure fair and equal opportunities for all applicants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1960344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}