{"id":580678,"date":"2023-06-29T17:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/supreme-court-hands-down-blow-to-college-affirmative-action\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:12:02","slug":"supreme-court-hands-down-blow-to-college-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/supreme-court-hands-down-blow-to-college-affirmative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"#Supreme Court hands down blow to college affirmative action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/AP22304548448528-e1686264318800.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Supreme Court severely limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, upending decades of affirmative action programs that U.S. institutions have used to select students from their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>licant pools.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s six conservative justices invalidated Harvard\u2019s and\u00a0University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u2019s (UNC)\u00a0admissions policies by ruling they did not comply with the 14th Amendment\u2019s guarantee of equal protection.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cBoth programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points,\u201d Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will not do so today,\u201d he continued. \u201cAt the same time, as all parties agree, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant\u2019s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">\n        READ: Supreme Court\u2019s affirmative action majority opinion<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a rare occurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas read his concurring opinion from the bench.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s decision adds to a legal crusade by conservative legal strategist Edward Blum, who formed Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) and separately challenged the admission policies of Harvard and UNC nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration had backed the two schools before the justices. But after affirmative action at colleges survived multiple previous challenges at the Supreme Court, the bench\u2019s increasingly conservative makeup has now handed down a major blow.<\/p>\n<p>After Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the bench last year, the justices considered SFFA\u2019s challenges separately. Jackson served on Harvard\u2019s Board of Overseers until last spring and agreed to recuse herself from the school\u2019s case during her confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Supreme Court first laid the groundwork for affirmative action in 1978 as it decided a challenge to the University of California\u2019s system that reserved 16 out of 100 seats for members of certain minority groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The justices in a splintered decision struck down the quota system, but no opinion garnered a majority of votes. Lower courts were left grappling with whether to consider as binding precedent the opinion of Justice Lewis Powell, whose swing vote invalidated the quota while more broadly upholding race-conscious admissions. <\/p>\n<p>Schools across the country modeled their affirmative action programs on Powell\u2019s opinion in the years following.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cToday, this Court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress,\u201d liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent. \u201cIt holds that race can no longer be used in a limited way in college admissions to achieve such critical benefits. In so holding, the Court cements 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<p>A quarter-century later, a majority of justices in Grutter v. Bollinger upheld affirmative action by endorsing Powell\u2019s argument. They ruled Title VI and the Equal Protection Clause allowed the narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court left affirmative action intact in two subsequent challenges.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In a 2013 case challenging race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin, the justices sent the case back to a lower court after finding it did not apply Grutter correctly. Three years later, the case returned to the Supreme Court, and the school emerged victorious.<\/p>\n<p>In all three instances, Republican-nominated justices authored the majority opinions. In Grutter, however, Justice Sandra Day O\u2019Connor wrote for the majority that they expected the use of racial preferences \u201cwill no longer be necessary\u201d in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Her decision marked its 20-year anniversary June 23.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p><em>Updated 10:28 a.m. ET.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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