
Proponents for affirmative action in bigger training rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court docket in advance of oral arguments in College students for Honest Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Pupils for Fair Admissions v. College of North Carolina on Oct 31, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the affirmative action admission guidelines of Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which gave excess weight to a would-be student’s race, are unconstitutional.
The court’s vast majority belief reported that both of those Harvard’s and UNC’s affirmative action plans “unavoidably employ race in a damaging way, require racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.”
“We have in no way permitted admissions packages to perform in that way, and we will not do so nowadays,” the view said.
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