Affirmative Action discussed at Supreme Court

Supreme Court Now Turns Its Focus To Discussing & Possibly Overturning Affirmative Action

This past Monday, the justices of the Supreme Court heard a pair of cases that could end up causing them to officially rule against Affirmative action, a policy that allowed universities to promote people belonging to certain minority groups throughout their standard admissions processes.

One legal advocacy group, Students for Fair Admissions, has stood in opposition to affirmative action and has officially filed complaints against both the University of North Carolina and Harvard University for “employing racially and ethnically discriminatory policies and procedures” when going through their admissions process. The lawsuit slammed against Harvard made the argument that Asian-American students are being required to get much high test scores on standardized tests in order to secure entrance into ivy league colleges.

The more conservative-leaning justices of the Supreme Court have voiced an extremely high degree of skepticism regarding race-conscious admissions practices as the legal teams for both schools expressed their arguments. Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained that policies such as those are “potentially dangerous and must have a logical end point,” while Justice Amy Coney Barrett called on attorneys for the University of North Carolina to clarify just when the “sunset” for such policies was expected to be. Justice Clarence Thomas stated that he has “heard the word ‘diversity’ quite a few times” and absolutely does not “have a clue what it means.”

If they want to know the meaning of "diversity," they should ask the Lake Worth City Commission as a few of them love the word "diversity." Affirmative Action is discriminatory. Admittance should be based on merit.

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