JUST IN: The U.S. Supreme Court says it will take up a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions.
The group which brought the case -- Students for Fair Admissions -- alleges that Asian American applicants have been illegally targeted by Harvard and rejected at a disproportionately higher rate in violation of Supreme Court precedent and the students' constitutional rights.Two lower federal courts have rejected these claims.
"Public schools have no legitimate interest in maintaining a precise racial balance," the group wrote in its brief to the court."The same Fourteenth Amendment that required public schools to dismantle segregation after [Brown v. Board of Education] cannot be cowed by the diktats of university administrators."
He and many of the court's other conservatives have long argued that the best way to root out discrimination on the basis of race is to not permit discrimination on the basis of race.
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