US Supreme Court sides with groups arguing that race-conscious admissions programmes discriminate against some students.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that colleges must stop considering race as a factor in admission policies, dealing a setback to so-called affirmative action efforts aimed at boosting the enrolment of Black and Latino students at top universities.
The top court’s decision on Thursday came in response to lawsuits challenging the policies of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) that claimed race-conscious student admissions programmes discriminate against white and Asian-American applicants.
It is the latest ruling by the conservative-dominated court that advances right-wing priorities.
“College admissions are zero-sum. A benefit provided to some applicants but not to others necessarily advantages the former group at the expense of the latter,” the Supreme Court said in its ruling, embracing the argument that affirmative action benefiting some minority students disadvantages others.
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