Supreme Court in favor of white firefighters who charged New Haven, Connecticut discriminated against them when it refused to promote them after they passed a test that few of its African American co-workers failed. According to the court, the city should not have discarded the test result just...
In the majority decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court stated that educational institutions across the country should use impartial standards in their admissions process without considering race. “The Court has permitted race-based college admissions only within the confines of narrow...
A group that opposes affirmative actionfiled an appealTuesday of a federal ruling that Harvard had not intentionally discriminated against Asian-American applicants, ratcheting up a challenge to decades of Supreme Court decisions upholding ...
A divided Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
The Supreme Court's decision on mifepristone's future is playing into the 2024 presidential election, as anti-abortion groups plan to restrict access or remove the drug from the market.
The assumption that affirmative action would not withstand the Supreme Court's scrutiny has now come to fruition. While the decision will be felt most acutely at highly competitive schools, universities have warned that ending race-conscious admissions programs would lead to a significan...
They’ve urged colleges to prepare now for an unfavorable opinion, which seemed all the more likely given the skeptical line of questioning from conservatives on the court Monday. Those justices repeatedly returned to the question of when race-conscious admissions can end. They cited the majority ...
The US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on June 29, 2023 regarding challenges to race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC). In a 6–3 decision split along ideological lines (the vote was 6
Their eventual decision could overturn decades of precedent. Following a handful of landmark cases brought by the DoJ accusing colleges of unfairly disadvantaging Asian and White applicants, the Supreme Court has just decided to hear arguments that could result in it radically breaking with precedent...
Alito wrote that the court was refusing “to correct a glaring constitutional error that threatens to perpetuate race-based affirmative action in defiance” of its major affirmative action decision last year. By passing on the case, the justices left in place a decision from a Boston-based fede...