Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs at Harvard and UNC

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The Biden administration had warned that a ruling curbing affirmative action would detrimentally affect the U.S. military, which depends on a “well-qualified and diverse officer corps” educated at military academies like West Point as well as civilian universities.
43% : Affirmative action, introduced to redress historic discrimination, has been a contentious issue for years, strongly supported by educational institutions and corporate America as being vital to fostering diversity and condemned by conservatives as being antithetical to the notion that racial equality means all races are treated the same.
43% : That then led to the 2003 Grutter ruling, which again reluctantly allowed some affirmative action programsIn 2016, the last time the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action, the justices narrowly upheld the admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin on a 4-3 vote, with conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has since retired, casting the deciding vote.
41% : It follows in the wake of the seismic ruling in 2022 that overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed a right to abortion.
41% : Those defending affirmative action said race-neutral policies aimed at achieving diversity will often fail, leading to declines in Black and Hispanic enrollment.

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