Supreme Court outlaws affirmative action in college admissions in landmark decision
The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina Thursday, ruling that both institutions were in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The decision overturns the Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger, which found that colleges could consider race as one factor in the admissions process to achieve a diverse student body.And the Equal Protection Clause, we have accordingly held, applies ‘without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality’—it is ‘universal in [its] application.'”
The chief justice concluded his opinion by saying that while colleges can consider an applicant’s “discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise … universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today.”
Roberts was joined in his opinion by all five of his colleagues on the court’s conservative wing: Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch. The court’s three liberals, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented in the UNC case, while Jackson — a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School as well as a former member of the university’s Board of Overseers, recused herself from the case involving the Ivy League school.
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