'This is not a normal court,' President Biden says after the Supreme Court's ruling against affirmative action programs at Harvard and UNC.
of affirmative action, wrote his own 58-page opinion in which he called the programs in question"rudderless, race-based preferences designed to ensure a particular racial mix in the entering classes."
The ruling is another example of the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, delivering on the long-held goals of conservative legal activists. It follows in the wake of the seismic ruling in 2022 that overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed a right to abortion.that say some consideration of race is vital in ensuring they have diverse student bodies.
The student"must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual — not on the basis of race," he added.. The Biden administration had warned that a ruling curbing affirmative action would detrimentally affect the U.S. military, which depends on a “well-qualified and diverse officer corps” educated at military academies like West Point as well as civilian universities.
Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a concurring opinion, said Thursday's ruling would apply first to those starting college in 2028 and that the decision therefore did not conflict with the 2003 ruling.for years, strongly supported by educational institutions and corporate America as being vital to fostering diversity and condemned by conservatives as being antithetical to the notion that racial equality means all races are treated the same.
In 2016, the last time the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action, the justices narrowly upheld the admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin on a 4-3 vote, with conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has since retired, casting the deciding vote.
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