The court said Monday it'll take up lawsuits claiming Harvard, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina, a state school, discriminate against Asian American applicants.
The conservative-dominated Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions, adding another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 already on the agenda.
Two members of that four-justice majority are gone from the court: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, and Justice Anthony Kennedy retired in 2018. Last week, the justice's weighed in for the first time on President Joe Biden's vaccine policies, halting a rule requiring a vaccine or testing at large businesses while 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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