Court’s decision will limit the power of colleges and universities to consider an applicant’s race as a factor in the admissions process
The US supreme court, driven by its conservative supermajority, ended race-conscious admissions at universities across the country, tossing out decades of precedent in American life.
The conservative justices concluded that admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina discriminated against Asian American applicants and violated the US constitution’s equal protection clause..