Most Supreme Court justices seemed receptive on Oct. 31 to a student group’s argument that racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges are unconstitutional and must be struck down.
The Biden administration countered that such policies should be allowed to continue indefinitely because they promote diversity, which it claims benefit the nation.
Although left-wing activists such as advocates of Marxist-derived critical race theory say race-conscious policies are essential to dismantle the systemic racism they say pervades the American experience, critics say using race in the college admissions process is both anachronistic and wrong.
The use of race-based criteria by institutions of higher learning in the admissions process isn’t popular. Pew Research Center and Gallup surveys show that nearly 75 percent of Americans of all races “do not believe race or ethnicity should be a factor in college admissions.”…