Supreme Court To Reconsider Affirmative Action for College Admissions
- January 24, 2022
Case could heighten pressure on President Biden to deliver on racial-equity agenda
Kevin Daley, Washington Free Beacon
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will reconsider whether colleges and universities can use race as a factor in admissions.
The justices took up a pair of challenges to affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Both broadly allege that the schools discriminate against Asian and white applicants to admit a preferred number of black and Hispanic students. The plaintiffs’ group behind both cases, Students for Fair Admissions, is urging the High Court to scuttle its affirmative action precedents and ban race-conscious admissions.
The administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, solicitor general Elizabeth Prelogar, received a waiver from ethics officials to participate in the case, even though she is a former Harvard employee. A watchdog group, Protect the Public’s Trust, is pressing the administration for information related to the waiver.