The Supreme Court on Thursday declared affirmative action in college admissions unconstitutional, ruling that admissions decisions can no longer use look to race as a factor.

The vote was 6-3 in the North Carolina case and 6-2 in the Harvard case. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sat out the Harvard case because she had been a member of an advisory governing board there.

You can read <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/scotus-affirmative-action-20-1199_hgdj.pdf">the full decision, and the dissents, here</a>.

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Read the opinion: SCOTUS declares affirmative action unconstitutional

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