Justices of the US Supreme Court engaged in heated exchanges showing their political divides while hearing arguments on abolishing race-conscious university admissions in the first of two cases that could transform college campuses and overturn decades-old precedents.
Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson pressed a lawyer representing a group that is suing the University of North Carolina, as well as Harvard College, about contentions that the schools are using race as the determinative factor in admissions.
“What are the facts here about whether or not race is being used singularly to let people in?” Jackson asked Patrick Strawbridge, counsel for Students for Fair Admissions.
The line of questioning contrasted sharply with that from conservatives on the court, who hold a 6-3 majority. Justice Clarence Thomas said the University of North Carolina had argued schools couldn’t consider “the whole person” if they couldn’t consider race, and asked Strawbridge to respond to that.
Strawbridge replied that the Supreme Court had long held that racial classifications were “invidious” and that while an applicant might write something in their applications that referenced their race, “just considering race and race alone is not consistent with the Constitution.” Strawbridge added that race couldn’t be a factor in striking jurors or awarding child custody.
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