Oral arguments in a pair of much-anticipated cases about the future of affirmative action sprawled over almost six hours on Monday, yet the outcome was obvious within the first 30 minutes: The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority appears poised to overturn almost 50 years of precedent and outlaw race-conscious admissions at institutions of higher education. One case-arising from the University of North Carolina’s affirmative action program-was argued over two and a half hours. The second, a challenge to Harvard’s program, took up the better part of the afternoon.
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Nothing Can Stop the Court From Ending Affirmative Action
