The Supreme Court will reconsider race-based affirmative action in college admissions, a move that could eliminate campus practices that have widely benefitted Black and Hispanic students.
The justices said they will hear challenges to policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that use students’ race among many criteria to decide who should gain a coveted place in an entering class.The cases would be heard in the session that begins next October, with a decision likely by June 2023.
The advocates who first developed the Harvard and UNC lawsuits in 2014 aspired to an eventual battle at the Supreme Court, where affirmative action has been upheld only through fragile one-vote margins. In the nearly eight years since then, the bench has gained more justices on the right wing, notably the three appointees of former President Donald Trump.“It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race,” he wrote in a 2006 voting-rights dispute.
The Students for Fair Admissions petition to the high court in the Harvard case alleged that the school “engages in racial balancing and ignores race-neutral alternatives” to attain campus diversity. The group contends the Ivy League campus holds Asian-American applicants to higher standards than African-American and Latino students and engages in stereotypes, such as that Asian-Americans are “book smart and one-dimensional.
Harvard argued it considers race in a “flexible” way that benefits all highly qualified candidates. Its lawyers told the trial court that the college could fill its freshman class entirely with applicants who had perfect test scores and grades, but that it wanted a different mix on campus, a broader range of talent and life experiences.
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