LIVE UPDATES: Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs at UNC and Harvard.
Justice Clarence Thomas read his concurring opinion from the bench in the affirmative action case.GOP Rep. Steel: Affirmative action 'stacked the deck against Asian Americans'that"American colleges and universities have stacked the deck against Asian Americans in the name of diversity."
“The world admires America because we value freedom and opportunity. The Supreme Court reaffirmed those values today," Haley, who was the first Indian American to serve in a presidential cabinet, said in a statement. "Postsecondary education has been plagued by affirmative action for far too long, and I’m pleased that the Supreme Court has finally upheld the equal protection of students. Fairness and merit will finally receive the due deference they deserve," she said.
The court ruled that both programs violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution and are therefore unlawful. The vote was 6-3 in the UNC case and 6-2 in the Harvard case, in which liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was recused.
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