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In a 6 -3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled higher education institutions may not consider race as a factor in admissions

Affirmative action becomes harder to defend when it entails discrimination against a variety of racial and ethnic minority groups.

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments from Harvard and the University of North Carolina about using race and ethnicity in admissions policies. At stake is the fate of affirmative action and the positive effects that race-conscious policies have had on higher education and the workplace for more than 50 years.

The link between Bostock v. Clayton County and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina

The U.S. military learned a valuable lesson about race during the Vietnam War: Diversity does not happen without affirmative action.

Since its first major decision on the subject in 1978, the court has repeatedly upheld universities' ability to consider the race of applicants as one of many factors in admissions decisions.

The high court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases brought by a group led by the same man who previously lost an affirmative action case against the University of Texas at Austin.

The high court’s conservatives all expressed doubts about the practice, while the three liberals defended the programs, which are similar to those used by many private and public universities.

In the two cases, brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions argues that race-conscious admissions violate the Civil Rights Act