The end of affirmative action, at least on college campuses, is almost certainly near. The court is set to hear oral arguments over the admissions processes at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
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But they’ll be making that argument to a court that is extremely skeptical of any sort of racial preference.on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a 2007 opinion about the use of race when assigning kids to public schools. This time around, the named plaintiffs are not only white students, but also Asian Americans, who say they’ve been discriminated against because of the way Harvard and UNC give preference to applications from Black and Hispanic students.
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