On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
The high court ruled that race-conscious admissions are unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment in cases involving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University.
In the University of North Carolina case, the vote was 6-3, and the vote was 6-2 in the Harvard case after Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself.
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