BREAKING: The Supreme Court issued a ruling on affirmative action policies in Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC), which are used to help diversify their campuses. The decision comes after the Supreme Court decided these policies are in violation of the 14th amendment.
Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the ones to sue the President and Fellows of Harvard College and UNC, released a statement after the vote.
“The polarizing, stigmatizing and unfair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a student’s race and ethnicity as a factor to admit or reject them has been overruled,” said President and Founder of the SFFA, Edward Blum. “These discriminatory admission practices undermined the integrity of our country’s civil rights laws.”
The ruling against Harvard was 6-2, after Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself as she previously held position in Harvard’s Board of Overseers.
The impact of this vote has now hit all colleges and universities requiring them to not use race as part of the competitive admissions process.
We will update this story as updates come in.
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