Supreme Court Appears Fully Ready to Gut Affirmative Action

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The decision upheld Regents v. Bakke, a ruling on affirmative action from a quarter century earlier -- but with one notable qualification.
54% : Affirmative action must continue, potentially for generations to come -- because the invidious discrimination experienced by Black Americans over a three-century span has not been undone."
51% : And while O'Connor may have suggested that affirmative action won't be necessary in six years, it is, for now, "impossible to argue that Black Americans enjoy equality of opportunity," Stone and Bollinger wrote.
50% : But Black respondents were also somewhat split, opposing the Supreme Court ending affirmative action, but only narrowly, with 47 percent in support of a ban.
49% : While O'Connor suggested full racial equality would be achieved in 2028, affirmative action may not last that long.
47% : While public opinion is decidedly in favor of reproductive freedom, it is more mixed on affirmative action; a recent Washington Post poll suggested 63 percent of Americans oppose race-aware admissions, even as 64 percent favor programs aimed at boosting diversity on campuses.
46% : When it comes to racial groups, white Americans appear most opposed to affirmative action, with two-thirds in the survey arguing that the Supreme Court should prohibit the use of race as a factor in admissions.
42% : Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court's leading conservative, has long opposed affirmative action, suggesting that the policy is itself tantamount to discrimination.
7% : Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito, the latter of whom authored the court's Dobbs decision ending federal abortion rights, have also directly criticized affirmative action.

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