BREAKING: The Supreme Court will consider challenges to affirmative action at Harvard College and another university.
The challenges targeting university admissions policies at the public and private institutions are the latest that seek to end affirmative action in college admissions, which has been used at universities to foster diversity among student bodies. Nine states have banned affirmative action at public universities.
But Kennedy retired in 2018 and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who joined Kennedy in the majority, died in 2020. The Supreme Court's conservative majority has now grown to 6-3 with the additions of Justice Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.in 2014 alleging its admissions process violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by penalizing Asian American applicants.
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