Thomas questions educational benefit of racial diversity Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the court will struggle if they are asked to review affirmative action again in 10 years, “if you don’t have something measurable” that shows whether the diversity goals have been achieved. It's not going to stop mattering at some particular point, you're always going to have to look at race because you say race matters to give us the necessary diversity." "Your position is that race matters because it's necessary for diversity, which is necessary for the sort of education you want. "I don't see how you can say that the program will ever end," Chief Justice John Roberts said during a pile-on that also included Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett. Multiple justices asked Ryan Park, the North Carolina Solicitor General who is defending the UNC admissions program, to elaborate on how to measure that a school has achieved the diversity goals that would render affirmative action unnecessary. The conservative wing of the court harped on the lack of clarity around when the need for affirmative action would end. Here are key takeaways from today's oral arguments:Ĭonservatives say defenders of affirmative action can’t articulate an end point The court took nearly five hours to debate affirmative action policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard.īased on Monday’s oral arguments, the six conservative justices appear ready to end the use of affirmative action in admissions, overturning a precedent from 1978. Francis Chung/E&E News/Politico/APĬonservative Supreme Court justices were hostile on Monday to the ongoing use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. Members of the public enter the Supreme Court to attend oral arguments on Monday.
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