Landmark Supreme Court decision says colleges can no longer take race into consideration as an express factor in admissions
SCOTUS is set to rule on key cases with critical impact. Here are the opinions that are left this term.
Of the cases remaining, several that most capture the public’s attention are likely to lead to fiery opinions and dissents read from the bench.The court is considering whether colleges and universities can continue to take race into consideration as a factor in admissions, a decision that could overturn long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students.
, an initiative aimed at providing targeted debt relief to millions of student-loan borrowers that has so far been stalled by legal challenges. Republican-led states and conservatives challenging the program say it amounts to an unlawful attempt to erase an estimated $430 billion of federal student loan debt under the guise of the pandemic. At the heart of the case is the Department of Education’s authority to forgive the loans. Several of the conservative justices have signaled in recent years that agencies – with no direct accountability to the public – have become too powerful, upsetting the separation of powers.
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