Supreme Court to consider a landmark challenge to race-based affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina
The justices said they will hear challenges to policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that use students' race among many criteria to decide who should gain a coveted place in an entering class.The cases would be heard in the session that begins next October, with a decision likely by June 2023.
US drops discrimination lawsuit against Yale The challenges were developed by conservative activist Edward Blum, who has long protested racial policies and who engineered the lawsuit that led to the justices' 2013 case of Shelby County v. Holder. That 5-4 decision eliminated a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that required states with a history of discrimination to obtain Department of Justice approval before adding voter-identification criteria or making other electoral changes.
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