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| Good afternoon, OnPolitics readers! It's Amy here with the politics news of the day. |
| Sixty-eight years after the Supreme Court handed down one of its most recognized and consequential opinions, Brown v. Board of Education, its meaning is being debated in two closely watched cases in which the justices must decide if colleges may consider race in admissions. |
| An anti-affirmative action group is challenging the way Harvard College and the University of North Carolina weigh race as one factor when they consider prospective students for admission. That group reads the 1954 Brown decision as commanding universities to be colorblind, providing no advantage to applicants based on race. |
| What is the argument? The position that prevailed in Brown, the plaintiffs told the justices in a brief that quoted from a 2007 Supreme Court opinion, was that "no state has any authority...to use race as a factor in affording educational opportunities among its citizens." |
| But critics say that approach turns Brown – and the 14th Amendment – on its head. Brown prohibited public schools from excluding Black children "solely on the basis of race," they say, but it didn't bar a university from considering race as it seeks to achieve the opposite goal: Assembling a diverse class of students that reflects the population. |
| "No equivalence can sincerely be drawn between the segregation Brown rightly condemned and a university's limited consideration of race...to assemble a diverse class," Harvard told the Supreme Court in a brief this summer. |
| 🎥 More cases to watch this term: Supreme Court correspondent John Fritze breaks down the biggest cases this term, with issues ranging from LGBTQ rights to voting rights. |
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| Can you cast your ballot now for the 2022 midterms? Voters in some states could have already begun casting their ballots for the midterm election. In others, in-person early voting begins as soon as this week. |
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