U.S. Supreme Court,
Education Law
Nov. 1, 2022
California law debated in challenge to race-conscious admissions
Republican-appointed justices, who now have a commanding 6-3 majority on the court, were receptive to arguments by attorneys for Students for Fair Admissions Inc., who said the court should reverse decades of precedents upholding race-based college admissions policies.
Race-conscious college admissions look to be doomed after most U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Monday of upholding its own precedents allowing the practice.
“I don’t see how you can say this program will ever end,” said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., an appointee of President George W. Bush.
Roberts and the other five Republican appointees on the nine-person court repeatedly invoked a line in J...
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