Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ruling Draws Celebration, Criticism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% :Butcher also said affirmative action policies would often lead students from minority backgrounds to question whether they earned their place through academic merit or because of their skin color, leading them to feel undeserving and judged by their peers.
53% : The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down race-based admissions policies at U.S. colleges -- known as affirmative action policies -- was met with celebration as well as disappointment and defiance.
52% : Butcher said affirmative action would often result in its beneficiaries being admitted to challenging academic settings where they underperform.
50% : In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the court's ruling on affirmative action "rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress" and "cements a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society where race has always mattered and continues to matter."
47% : Much of the arguments in the case focused on claims affirmative action policies unfairly impacted college applicants of Asian descent.
42% : "It's definitely disheartening to see arguments like this because there's a lot of misinformation and disinformation regarding affirmative action and I think just the main important thing is that Asian Americans, we are not just a monolith, that, like these arguments, does not represent all of us," one of the OCA advocates told a group of reporters outside the court.
41% : The Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) challenged affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, culminating in the Supreme Court's ruling on Thursday in SFFA v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, finding that college race-based admissions programs are unconstitutional.

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