Why the Supreme Court Might End Affirmative Action - The New York Times

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For decades, galore universities person utilized contention arsenic a origin erstwhile deciding which students to admit. In the past, the Supreme Court has backed that practice, called affirmative action, successful the involvement of creating a divers pupil body.

This week, however, the majority-conservative tribunal is considering a lawsuit that whitethorn alteration affirmative enactment forever.

Background reading

• The Supreme Court appears acceptable to rule that race-conscious admissions programs astatine Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful.

• In the clash implicit affirmative action, both sides invoke Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous 1954 determination that said the Constitution prohibits radical segregation successful nationalist schools.

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