Affirmative Action Ruling ‘Just the End of the Beginning’

Supreme Court sounds a knell for race-based university admissions and opens the way for the next fight — board rooms.

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
Edward Blum at Washington in 2014. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta

“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” Those are the words of the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, in finding that Harvard and the University of North Carolina have — in their race-based admissions policies — been violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. The decision is a major step in redeeming America’s  constitutional commitment to a more perfect Union.

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