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By ending affirmative action at universities, a year after torpedoing federal abortion law, the Supreme Court continues its anti-progressive crusade in the name of fantasized equality.
A year after Roe v. Wade in 1973, the Supreme Court dealt conservative ideology a historic and spectacular new blow to a pillar of American society by outlawing the famous “affirmative action” of racial and ethnic considerations for university admissions as unconstitutional declared candidates that have been in force in the United States for decades. This has destroyed important jurisprudence that has maintained a semblance of racial diversity in higher education for generations, with unpredictable and perhaps profound consequences for the protection of minorities from discrimination.
With a majority of six conservative judges against three “left” judges, the court was responding to two appeals against the admissions processes of the prestigious Harvard University, the country’s oldest private institution, and the University of North Carolina, pioneer public universities. These complaints were raised back in 2014 by the group “Stu