High Court Strikes Racial Preferences From College Admissions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The last time the court revisited the Bakke decision on affirmative action was in the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger.
49% : The decision is a major victory for opponents of affirmative action, including Students for Fair Admissions, the advocacy group that brought the cases against Harvard and UNC.
48% : Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who wrote the majority opinion upholding Bakke at that time, argued that affirmative action should be a temporary measure, and "expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."
34% : In California, where affirmative action was banned in 1995, the percentage of black and Latino students at the University of California at Los Angeles fell by around 50 percent immediately following the prohibition.
23% : Supporters of affirmative action -- including the Biden administration, which had urged the Supreme Court not to take the case-argued that overturning that decision would be a massive setback for campus diversity.

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