Today, the Supreme Court ruled against Harvard and the University of North Carolina in cases challenging the legality of their use of racial preferences in student admissions. The decision severely restricts, even if it doesn't completely ban, the use of racial preferences of purposes of achieving "diversity" in educational institutions. Chief Justice Roberts' majority opinion does an excellent job of laying out many of the flaws in diversity preferences, including nebulous goals, reliance on crude racial classifications and stereotypes, and the unconstitutional use of race as a "negative" to disadvantage Asian-American applicants, among others. Justice Neil Gorsuch's concurrence correctly points out that the cases could have been resolved more easily by relying on the plain text of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
