READ: Supreme Court’s affirmative action majority opinion

The Supreme Court limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, turning over affirmative action programs that U.S. institutions have used to select students from their applicant pools.

In a 6-3 majority opinion, the court’s conservative justices banded together to invalidate admissions schemes used by Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.

Read the majority opinion here:

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