{"id":580676,"date":"2023-06-29T17:31:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/supreme-court-strikes-down-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-says-race-cannot-be-a-factor\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T17:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:31:46","slug":"supreme-court-strikes-down-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-says-race-cannot-be-a-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/supreme-court-strikes-down-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-says-race-cannot-be-a-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"#Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action in College Admissions, Says Race Cannot Be a Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.<\/p>\n

\n The court\u2019s conservative majority overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation\u2019s oldest private and public colleges, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n Chief Justice John Roberts said that for too long universities have \u201cconcluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual\u2019s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent that the decision \u201crolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n In a separate dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson \u2014 the court\u2019s first Black female justice \u2014 called the decision \u201ctruly a tragedy for us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The Supreme Court had twice upheld race-conscious college admissions programs in the past 20 years, including as recently as 2016.<\/p>\n

\n But that was before the three app<\/a>ointees of former President Donald Trump joined the court. At arguments in late October, all six conservative justices expressed doubts about the practice, which had been upheld under Supreme Court decisions reaching back to 1978.<\/p>\n

\n Lower courts also had upheld the programs at both UNC and Harvard, rejecting claims that the schools discriminated against white and Asian-American applicants.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n