The Supreme Court will hear lawsuits claiming that Harvard and the University of North Carolina discriminate against Asian American applicants. A decision against the schools could mean the end of affirmative action in college admissions.
Last week, the justice’s weighed in for the first time on President Joe Biden’s vaccine policies, halting a rule requiringwhile allowing a vaccine mandate for most of the nation’s health care workers.
The Biden administration had urged the justices to stay away from the issue, writing in the Harvard case that the challenges “cannot justify that extraordinary step” of overruling the 2003 decision. Twenty-five years later, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor likewise invoked the Harvard plan in her opinion in the Michigan law school case.Students for Fair Admissions claims that Harvard imposes a “racial penalty” on Asian American applicants by systematically scoring them lower in some categories than other applicants and awarding “massive preferences” to Black and Hispanic applicants.
Harvard’s freshman class is roughly one-quarter Asian American, 16% Black and 13% Hispanic, Harvard says on its website. “If Harvard were to abandon race-conscious admissions, African-American and Hispanic representation would decline by nearly half,” the school told the court in urging it to stay out of the case.
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