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The US Supreme Court has limited the ability of universities to consider race in admissions, a ruling that could have far-reaching consequences for employers’ diversity policies across the country.
Thursday’s decision comes in two of the most prominent cases heard by the Supreme Court this season. The cases filed against the University of North Carolina, a public university, and Harvard University, a private Ivy League institution, were brought by Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit organization that seeks to eliminate racial considerations in admissions.
Fair Admissions students argued that this practice benefited black and Latino students at the expense of Asian Americans and others.
The court’s six conservative justices have ruled that affirmative action in the school’s admissions program cannot be “reconciled” with the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution. The three liberal justices defected.
This is a developing story