The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => SCOTUS News => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on August 16, 2022, 05:01:42 pm
-
Supreme Court sets date for UNC, Harvard affirmative action cases
https://campusreform.org/article?id=19957 (https://campusreform.org/article?id=19957)
The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday it would hear oral arguments for two high-profile affirmative action cases on October 31 that could challenge how universities use affirmative action in the admission process.
Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a non-profit that supports litigation against affirmative action policies, will lead the arguments against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) on the premise that their affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian and White students
... Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson, however, will not rule in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College due to her affiliation with the Ivy League school.
Both rulings ask the court to reconsider the 2003 affirmative action case Grutter v. Bollinger, which ruled in favor of permitting colleges and universities to use race as a factor during the college admission process.
...
The Harvard case involves the question of whether or not the university violated Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race.
The UNC case, on the other hand, will determine whether or not a “race-neutral” alternative can be rejected by the university “without proving that the alternative would cause a dramatic sacrifice in academic quality or the educational benefits of overall student-body diversity.”
-
I'm going to take an off-the-cuff GUESS that the Supremes will use this case to outlaw ALL "affirmative action" in education -- or perhaps ban AA altogether...