Liberal justices on the US Supreme Court have argued that a decision to strike down efforts that promote racially diverse college campuses perverts the reasons why such civil rights protections were enacted in the first place, more than 150 years ago.
A pair of cases before the nation’s highest court challenged whether race should be a factor in university admissions. A 6-3 decision from Chief Justice John Roberts with support from the court’s five conservative justices ruled that such considerations are unconstitutional.
