The Supremes: Affirmative Action
Following its tradition of recent years, the Supreme Court of the United States spent the last few weeks of June releasing its most controversial decisions of the term. It then adjourned for its usual three-month vacation. This is the first of a series of posts analyzing those decisions.
Continuing its steady march back to the 19th Century, the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court has effectively ended affirmative action on the basis of race in college admissions, a policy used for more than 40 years to make campuses more diverse. The two schools at the center of this decision, Harvard, America’s oldest private university, and the University of North Carolina, the oldest public one, had programs considered the gold standard in affirmative action plans.
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