,1,At the end of October, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding the lawfulness of race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina—a topic that folks generically call “affirmative action.” (The term has no legal meaning whatsoever.)
Harvard is accused of discriminating against Asian-American students through the use of a “point” system in admissions.
The complaint against the University of North Carolina is more vague. The conservative nonprofit Students for Fair Admissions argued that any consideration of race that is not otherwise tied to some other aspect of an applicant’s identity—like socio-economic hardship—is unconstitutional.
Read more at my substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/kimwehle/p/the-supreme-court-is-poised-to-make?r=1kp6vw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
