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“Equal educational opportunity is a prerequisite to achieving racial equality”: Dissenting Opinion on SCOTUS’ Affirmative Action decision

In a scathing dissent, the Judges observed that in holding that race can no longer be used in a limited way in college admissions to achieve critical benefits, the Majority has rolled back decades of precedent and momentous progress.

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Race-based admission programs by Universities of Harvard and North Carolina, violates Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment: SCOTUS

SCOTUS majority was of the view that Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race and unavoidably employ race in a negative manner.