{"id":408,"date":"2023-06-29T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/?p=408"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:21:48","slug":"the-supreme-court-bans-racial-preferences-in-college-admissions-on-june-29th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court Bans Racial Preferences in College Admissions on June 29th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-open-sans-font-family wp-block-paragraph\">The justices banned the use of racial preferences in college and university admissions programs in a historic ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-open-sans-font-family wp-block-paragraph\">Students for Fair Admissions, an advocacy group representing Asian-American students, brought two lawsuits:&nbsp; one against Harvard University and another against the University of North Carolina charging that the schools used racial bias in their admissions practices and discriminated against these students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-open-sans-font-family wp-block-paragraph\">The Supreme Court agreed&nbsp;and ruled 6-2 in the Harvard case and 6-3 in the University of North Carolina case&nbsp;that the schools violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-open-sans-font-family wp-block-paragraph\">America is the land of opportunity and this is the American Dream where ones can achieve success not based on the color of their skins but on their academic abilities and merits.&nbsp; Schools nationwide will no longer be able to discriminate against students on the basis of race with the ban of affirmative action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-open-sans-font-family wp-block-paragraph\">See some photos of the Equal Education Rights for All Rally on October 30th, 2022.&nbsp; The Rally was hosted by a coalition of Asian-American activists including the Asian-American Coalition for Education (AACE) (www.asianamericanforeducation.org), community leaders, students, and supporters of the cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/AnquY8jZ7Qsnw3iL9\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the use of racial preferences in college admissions in cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, a decision with significant implications for admissions policies nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}