Supreme Court overturns race-based affirmative action in college admissions
By Adway S. Wadekar and Audrey Wang | June 29, 2023The majority opinion, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, notes that race-based affirmative action programs implemented at Harvard and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, while “well intentioned and implemented in good faith,” failed to comply with each of the Court’s “narrow restrictions” for race-based admissions.