The court’s conservative majority did not want to know about affirmative action

“This is not an ordinary court,” U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday after the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action on university admissions. In the ruling, six conservative justices concurred Affirmative action In Unfair Discrimination Based on Skin Color, three progressive justices pointed to the inequality of opportunity in the United States among residents of different […]

The Supreme Court overturns affirmative action on American universities

Demonstrators for and against affirmative action in admissions to US universities, Thursday, in Washington.Reuters photo The decision ends decades of affirmative action policies on American universities. In the 1960s, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson asked all institutions that received government aid to “affirmative actionaffirmative action, in order to increase diversity. Subsequently, many universities introduced ethnic quotas, […]

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