Supreme Court strikes down universities' affirmative action programs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Today's ruling removes an "irreplaceable tool" for improving higher education, says David Hinojosa of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, who represented a coalition of students and recent graduates backing affirmative action in the North Carolina case.
51% : The decision overturns decades of the court's own precedent, which was most recently reaffirmed just seven years ago when moderate Justice Anthony Kennedy provided the swing vote to preserve affirmative action in college admissions in Fisher v. University of Texas.
47% : "We know this because every time there's been a ban on affirmative action, in Michigan, in Oklahoma, in California, in Texas," he explains, "there have been tremendous drops in racial diversity at the more selective universities." "Those state flagships," Hinojosa adds, "create pathways to leadership that will then be broken and need to be repaired."
40% : The decisions came in two separate cases brought by SFFA, a conservative group led by Edward Blum, a longtime crusader against affirmative action and voting rights who also was the engine behind the Fisher case.
35% : Roberts, who has fought affirmative action since his early days as a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, dismissed those goals as mushy and undefined ideals that would be impervious to judicial review.

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