A conservative majority on the Supreme Court is expected to be open to the idea of ending the use of race, or affirmative action, in college admissions.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, took race into account to help Black Americans get access to parts of society that were denied them during slavery. Strawbridge later said that Asian applicants have been disadvantaged by affirmative action policies that have benefited Black applications, a factor which he argued underscored the unfairness and unconstitutionality of those policies.Strawbridge said the use of race to determine who gets into a college is "inherently divisive."
She and other liberal justices in their questions argued that race was but one of many factors in affecting how colleges determine who gets admitted.
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