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SCOTUS strikes down Affirmative Action; finds against Harvard and UNC [1]
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Date: 2023-06-29
Here is the link to the decision
www.supremecourt.gov/…
“Held: Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions programs violate the Equal Pro-
tection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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“(f) Because Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions programs lack suffi-
ciently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race,
unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereo-
typing, and lack meaningful end points, those admissions programs
cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection
Clause. At the same time, nothing prohibits universities from consid-
ering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected the applicant’s life,
so long as that discussion is concretely tied to a quality of character or
unique ability that the particular applicant can contribute to the uni-
versity. Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that
the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested,
skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin. This Nation’s
constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”
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