The US Supreme Court has announced that colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as an expressed factor in admissions. This is a historic decision that overturns a long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education.
The decision was supported by six votes from judges with a conservative orientation, against three who voted in favor of affirmative action.
Chief Justice John Roberts was the rapporteur for the vote accompanied by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority. “The upshot of today’s ruling is that a person’s skin color may play a role in assessing individualized suspicion, but it cannot play a role in assessing that person’s individualized contributions to a diverse learning environment. This indefensible reading of the Constitution is not founded in law and subverts the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection.”
In her dissenting opinion, Liberal Judge Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, said the decision will result in a less equitable education system in the US.
“The upshot of today’s ruling is that a person’s skin color may play a role in assessing individualized suspicion, but it cannot play a role in assessing that person’s individualized contributions to a diverse learning environment. This indefensible reading of the Constitution is not founded in law and subverts the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection,” Sotomayor wrote, in part.
(Reporting by Ariane of Vogue and Manu Raju of CNN)
Source: CNN Brasil
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