Thu Jun 29, 2023 – 1:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The United States Supreme Court has ruled that affirmative action policies in place at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
The court was predictably split in its ruling, with Chief Justice John Roberts leading the six-justice conservative majority, while the three liberal judges on the high court dissented.
“The Harvard and UNC admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause. Both programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful endpoints,” wrote Roberts. “We have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will not do so today.”
“The student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual — not on the basis of race,” said the Chief Justice. “Many universities have for too long done just the opposite. And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color
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