, a conservative. Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation in 2020 gave conservatives a 6-3 majority. In other words, it's a different Supreme Court than it was just six years ago.Story continuesin the 2016 ruling."Now we are told that a program that tends to admit poor and disadvantaged minority students is inadequate because it does not work to the advantage of those who are more fortunate. This is affirmative action gone wild.
, alleges violation of a federal law that bars discrimination on the basis of race in programs that receive federal funding. In the other case, The two cases, among the most significant the court will consider in the upcoming term, had been consolidated. "It is our hope that the justices will end the use of race as an admissions factor at Harvard, UNC and all colleges and universities," Blum said in January."The cornerstone of our nation's civil rights laws is the principle that an individual’s race should not be used to help or harm them in their life’s endeavors."