{"id":45869,"date":"2023-07-19T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=45869"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:50:02","slug":"horace-cooper-the-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-decision-also-closes-the-door-on-race-based-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2023\/07\/19\/horace-cooper-the-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-decision-also-closes-the-door-on-race-based-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Horace Cooper: The Supreme Court\u2019s Affirmative Action Decision Also Closes the Door on Race-Based Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of its final rulings of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down raced-based admissions for colleges and universities (just as we at Project 21<\/a> had urged it to do in an amicus brief<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In a 6-3 decision, the court held that Harvard University\u2019s and the University of North Carolina\u2019s admissions processes violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Chief Justice\u00a0John Roberts\u2019s\u00a0<\/a><\/span>majority opinion explains that the Constitution does not allow admissions policies that single out a particular race for either an advantage or a disadvantage.<\/p>\n