Supreme Court Justices Signal Willingness To End Affirmative Action

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Affirmative action was first established through an executive order in 1965 that told employers to "take affirmative action to ensure that equal opportunity is provided in all aspects of their employment," and the Supreme Court then upheld the policy in a 1978 ruling finding universities could consider race as part of its admission process.
58% : A Timeline of Key Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action (New York Times)
52% : At least nine states -- Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Washington -- already have policies that don't allow affirmative action in university admissions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
46% : In Clash Over Affirmative Action, Both Sides Invoke Brown v. Board of Education (New York Times)
44% : The University of Michigan, which had to adopt race-neutral policies after a state ballot measure abolished affirmative action, said in a court brief that as a result, its Black population decreased by 44% between 2006 and 2021, even as Michigan's population of college-aged African Americans increased, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology argued getting rid of race in its admissions would result in the "denial of talented prospective scientists and engineers with exceptional promise."
44% : In cases challenging affirmative action, court will confront wide-ranging arguments on history, diversity, and the role of race in America (SCOTUSblog)
43% : The Supreme Court appears poised to outlaw affirmative action policies that take race into account in university admissions, as the court's conservative justices signaled during oral arguments Monday that they're open to ending the practice in favor of "race-neutral" admissions -- even as the court's liberal justices asserted its importance.
36% : Affirmative Action Could Soon Be Overturned As Supreme Court Takes Up
35% : Critics of the policy argue affirmative action is unfairly discriminatory against white and Asian American applicants, who are more overrepresented in applicant pools as compared with Black and Hispanic students.

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