US Supreme Court bans consideration of race in university admissions

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The US Supreme Court has placed limits on universities’ ability to consider race in admissions, a decision that could have far-reaching consequences for the diversity policies of employers across the country.

Thursday’s verdict comes in two of the most high-profile cases heard by the Supreme Court this session. The cases against the University of North Carolina, a public university, and Harvard University, a private Ivy League institution, were brought by Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit seeking to eliminate racial considerations in admissions.

Fair Admissions students had argued that the practice benefited black and Hispanic students while harmed Asian Americans and others.

The court’s six conservative justices ruled that affirmative action in school admissions programs could not be “accommodated” with the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Three liberal justices dissented.

This is a developing story