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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 31, 2022

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of race-conscious admissions policies in cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina today, The Hill reports. Over nearly five hours of oral argument, the justices posed sharp questions about admissions programs that consider the race of applicants in order to achieve student body diversity. They also appeared receptive to arguments by the conservative challengers, Students for Fair Admissions, who argued that the schools had impermissibly weighed race in admissions decisions.