The U.S. Supreme Court decision barring the use of race as a criterion for college admissions rights a wrong, according to proponents of the ruling, rather than perpetuates historic injustice as critics have claimed.
The 6-3 decision in Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College reconstituted a strict interpretation of the 14th Amendment, making it clear that equal treatment under the law bars discrimination based on race, even when that discrimination favors minorities.
That’s a step backward, critics say.
“The Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action programs is a historic civil rights setback,” Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, wrote in a June 29 statement….