The US Supreme Court ended affirmative action, upending decades of race-conscious college admissions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : While Asian Americans were leveraged to take down affirmative action, in fact 70% of the minority group supports affirmative action, according to the 2020 Asian American Voter Survey.
56% : Employers can protect workplace diversity initiatives if affirmative action is struck down
54% : The cases upheld affirmative action as constitutional in university admissions, so long as it is weighed with other factors, and also ruled against a points-based admissions system the school used at the time that awarded extra points to members of racial minority groups.
53% : The US Supreme Court has decided to strike down affirmative action in a 6-3 vote, overturning 45 years of precedent upheld twice before by the same body.
52% :The Supreme Court, with its conservative supermajority, already signaled it would take down affirmative action before today's decision was announced.
48% : Banning affirmative action in the workplace has also negatively impacted the representation of minority groups, with marked declines in Black female, Asian female, and Hispanic male employees, in states that have prohibited the practice, according to a Harvard study from 2013.
46% : The Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action is constitutional, but that use of specific racial quotas in university admissions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act.2003:
44% : When Blum found his lawsuits against affirmative action with white plaintiffs failed, as was the case in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, he changed tack.
44% : Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. BollingerTwin Supreme Court cases on affirmative action were brought against the University of Michigan.
43% : The former stockbroker and failed Republican congressional candidate has spent decades seeking to undo voting rights and affirmative action policies.
39% : In 1996, the state dropped affirmative action for public university admissions, leading to a plummet in the enrollment of minorities.

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