A recent ABC News/Ipsos poll found most Americans agreed with the Supreme Court’s recent rulings in three high-profile cases.
The majority of Americans, 52 percent, approved of the decision against race-based admissions in higher education, while 32 percent disapproved.
The court’s ban on affirmative action-based admissions was the result of its hearing two cases—originally filed in 2014—that were brought by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), with the first against Harvard College, and the second against the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill.
In the Harvard case, a points-based system was found to have been used in the admissions process where race was a specific factor, and the school’s capping of the number of Asian applicants was deemed impermissible. In the UNC case, the school was found to have disadvantaged white applicants in favor of black applicants….