- 2023The Record
Supreme Court ends race-conscious admissions
The U.S. Supreme Court rules 6 to 3 in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and 6 to 2 in the companion University of North Carolina case that race-conscious college admissions violate the 14th Amendment. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writes in dissent that the ruling will entrench the advantages of wealth and lineage across generations.
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