(John Ransom, Headline USA) The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases that may signal the end of race-based admissions at a time when progressive activists are arguing for equal outcome and more racial quotas while undermining equal opportunity, according to one think tank that works to restore the Founders’ vision of the Constitution.
“The Supreme Court has taken up the issue of race-based admissions at an opportune time, in that many on the left now argue that ‘equity’—that is, equal results—rather than equal opportunity should be our society’s goal where racial disparities are alleged,” Committee for Justice President Curt Levey, said in a statement.
Schools like Yale and Harvard use affirmative action to systemically discriminate against Asian American applicants.
The Court should strike down these unconstitutional policies. https://t.co/yfAvCKXi60
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) January 24, 2022
The two cases that will appear before SCOTUS, filed by a group called Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), involve Harvard and the University of North Carolina and center on admission policies that discriminate against Asian students in favor of black applicants.
“Harvard uses race at every stage of the admissions process,” SFFA said in its petition to SCOTUS on the Harvard case, according to Fox News.
“African-American and Hispanic students with PSAT scores of 1100 and up are invited to apply to Harvard,” noted SFFA via Fox, “but white and Asian-American students must score a 1350…. In some parts of the country, Asian-American applicants must score higher than all other racial groups, including whites, to be recruited by Harvard.”
The policies are similar to admissions at many colleges and universities in the U.S. The issue has previously been studied by the Justice Department under former President Donald Trump, which filed similar suits to SFFA cases on behalf of Asian students.
“The Department of Justice [DOJ] found Yale discriminates based on race and national origin in its undergraduate admissions process, and that race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year,” said the DOJ in 2020 about an investigation into race-based admission practices at Yale.
SCOTUS has previously found that race-based admission policies are legal as long as they are narrowly based and expire by 2028, according to the Committee for Justice.
But the Harvard and North Carolina cases may end those policies earlier.
The cases are not expected to be decided until 2023.
