{"id":115193,"date":"2023-06-30T03:52:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T03:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115193"},"modified":"2023-06-30T03:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T03:52:40","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-affirmative-action-programs-at-harvard-and-u-n-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115193","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Supreme Court Rejects Affirmative Action Programs at Harvard and U.N.C.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/29\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-admissions-affirmative-action-harvard-unc.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;The Supreme Court on Thursday\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rejected affirmative action<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/10\/31\/us\/affirmative-action-supreme-court?smid=url-share#affirmative-action-does-not-directly-impact-many-students-at-less-selective-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colleges and universities around the nation<\/a>, declaring that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful and sharply curtailing a policy that had long been a pillar of higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vote was 6 to 3, with the court\u2019s liberal members in dissent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Harvard and U.N.C. admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the equal protection clause,\u201d Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority. \u201cBoth programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping and lack meaningful end points.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice Sonia Sotomayor summarized her dissent from the bench, a rare move that signals profound disagreement, and said that affirmative action was crucial to countering persistent and systematic racial discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe court subverts the constitutional guarantee of equal protection by further entrenching racial inequality in education, the very foundation of our democratic government and pluralistic society,\u201d she said in her written dissent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;The Supreme Court on Thursday\u00a0rejected affirmative action\u00a0at\u00a0colleges and universities around the nation, declaring that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful and sharply curtailing a policy that had long been a pillar of higher education. The vote was 6 to 3, with the court\u2019s liberal members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115194,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115193\/revisions\/115194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}