The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday about one of the most challenging and controversial questions to reach its docket this year: whether colleges may consider the race of prospective students in the interest of diversity.
At issue are policies at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina that permit admissions offices to weigh the race of applicants as one of many factors that help decide who will be accepted. Depending on the scope of the court's ruling, the outcome in the cases could have profound implications beyond higher education.
Years in the making, the Harvard and UNC litigation arrives at the Supreme Court as the nation continues to wrestle with the fallout from the decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade and end the constitutional right to abortion. The two cases are among several this term that require the court's 6-3 conservative majority to
as well as questions about the extent to which the government may consider race to remedy discrimination..Attorneys for the colleges and the Biden administration, who have so far been successful in lower federal courts, will likely face a tougher audience at the nation's highest court. Chief Justice John Roberts, often the most likely conservative justice to side with the court's liberals, has repeatedly signaled his opposition to race-based decision-making in other contexts.
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