A students group that disagrees with how some colleges use race to determine which applicants to admit will present their case to the nation’s top court. The Supreme Court on Monday announced it granted writs of certiorari, or requests for review of lower court decisions, from Students for Fair Admissions in cases involving the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. The separate cases were consolidated and one hour was allotted for oral arguments at a later date. The U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI mean the schools cannot use race in the admissions process, according to the petitions to the court. “The same Fourteenth Amendment that required public schools to dismantle segregation after Brown cannot be cowed by the diktats of university administrators,” petitioners stated, referring to Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that foundĀ “separate but equal” educational facilities violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Harvard …
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenges to Colleges Using Race in Admissions
January 24, 2022
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