Supreme Court hears arguments on college affirmative action cases
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...nts/index.html

Conservative Supreme Court justices were hostile on Monday to the ongoing use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions.

The court took nearly five hours to debate affirmative action policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard.

Based on Monday?s oral arguments, the six conservative justices appear ready to end the use of affirmative action in admissions, overturning a precedent from 1978.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that if colleges are prohibited from making any consideration of race, it risks violating the Constitution?s equal protection protections for students who will not be able to present that background in their applications.

?I hear a process in which there's a form that says tell us about yourself and people can put all sorts of things. I'm Catholic, I'm from, you know, Los Angeles, I'm Latina, whatever,? she said. ?But now we're ? we're entertaining a rule in which some people can say the things they want, about who they are and have that valued in the system. But other people are not going to be able to. Because they won't be able to reveal that they're Latino or African American or whatever. And I'm worried that that creates an inequity in the system.?
Live Updates: Supreme Court Hears Affirmative Action Cases From Harvard and U.N.C.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10...-supreme-court

In San Francisco, Asian Americans ? especially Chinese Americans ? mobilized in large numbers this year to oust three members of the city?s school board. One driving reason for their high turnout was the board?s vote to put in place a lottery system at the highly competitive Lowell High School, replacing an admissions process that primarily selected students with the highest grades and test scores. That change in effect cut the number of Asian and white ninth graders at Lowell by around one-quarter and increased Black and Latino ninth graders by more than 40 percent, inciting backlash from many Asian parents.
Posting in here as I imagine we'll have the usual rioting and looting that happens if this gets overturned. I'm actually okay with the policy going away as it isn't really necessary anymore unless someone can stake out some clear guidelines for what conditions net to be met for its repeal. If state or federally sponsored schools deny students because of race, well, they should be sued.
If someone wants to found their own private university that only allows race 'x', gender 'x', religion 'x', and sexual orientation 'x' that's fine with me so long as they get ZERO federal or state level funding, research grants, ROTC programs etc...