BREAKING: Supreme Court strikes down race-based college admissions
By Hannah Nightingale On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled to strike down affirmative action in colleges and universities.
The court ruled 6-3 that affirmative action is unconstitutional, and violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
The ruling came as part of two cases, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College.
The group asked the court to overturn a 2003 ruling, Grutter v. Bollinger, which allowed ethnic and racial identities to play a part in the acceptance of students to colleges and universities.
The cases were brought forth by Students for Fair Admissions, who allege that schools taking race into consideration on college applications violate equal protection under the law.
Attorney for the University of North Carolina, Ryan Park, argued during the hearing that diversity within the school leads students to "perform at a higher level make more efficient trading decisions, and the mechanism there is it reduces groupthink, and people have longer and more sustained disagreement, and that leads to a more efficient outcome."
"Well, I guess I don't put much stock in that because I've heard similar arguments in favor of segregation too," Justice Clarence Thomas said at the time.
The SFFA argued that the ruling in Grutter allowing racial considerations in university admissions was "egregiously wrong," that it has led to "significant negative consequences," and that the previous ruling is essentially outmoded, nearly 20 years later.
At the time of the ruling in Grutter, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said that "25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further" a school's desire for a diverse student body.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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