June 29, 2023
By now you already know the Supreme court ruled that race should not explicitly be used as a basis for whether a student gets accepted to college. But there’s a pretty large exception to that rule. One university can still use race when deciding who gets accepted and who does not.
You want to know who it is?
First you have to understand — the six conservative justices spent more than 100 pages in today’s ruling arguing why race should not be a determining factor in who gets accepted to college saying in this day and age, colleges should be considering students based on their experiences as individuals not using their race…. And by using race as a factor – it violates the equal protections clause of the 14th Amendment.
But buried in a footnote on page 22 of the majority opinion –Chief Justice John Roberts says military academies can still use race when determining who is accepted and who is not.
How does that make sense. Well, the footnote says race-based acceptance in military academies have a “potentially distinct interest” in creating diversity among the United States military leadership.
Well, the liberal justices immediately called out the hypocrisy of this military carve out. In her dissent Justice Sotomayor says this carve out only convolutes the majority’s opinion and “further proves that the 14th Amendment does not categorically prohibit the use of race in college admissions.”
Read the Supreme Court opinion here.
