US Supreme Court strikes down university race-conscious admissions policies

WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious student admissions programmes currently used at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina .

The decision, powered by the court’s conservative justices with the liberal justices in dissent, was 6-3 against the University of North Carolina and 6-2 against Harvard. Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not participate in the Harvard case. Many institutions of higher education, corporations and military leaders have long backed affirmative action on campuses.

Harvard and UNC have said they use race as only one factor in a host of individualised evaluations for admission without quotas – permissible under previous Supreme Court precedents. Many US conservatives and Republican elected officials have argued that giving advantages to one race is unconstitutional, regardless of the motivation or circumstances.Some have advanced the argument that remedial preferences are no longer needed because the US has moved beyond racist policies of the past such as segregation and is becoming increasingly diverse.

Students for Fair Admissions alleged that the adoption by UNC, a public university, of an admissions policy that is not race-neutral, violates the guarantee to equal protection of the law under the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

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