Affirmative action unconstitutional, SCOTUS rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : This precedent, first confirmed in 2003, acknowledged affirmative action as a necessary, corrective system to racial inequality in higher education.
59% : Public universities can no longer consider race in admissions, a practice known as affirmative action, following a 6-3 decision released by the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday morning.
57% : The establishing case, however, recommended a 25-year limit on affirmative action -- a limit that would have theoretically expired in six years.
54% : Because affirmative action is related to a government entity and the consideration of race, it is subject to "strict scrutiny," the tightest level of review to prove constitutionality.
28% : Roberts wrote that affirmative action fails strict scrutiny because the goals the universities presented were not judicially meaningful and because the universities' admissions programs didn't demonstrate a meaningful connection between the "means they employ and the goals they pursue."

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