The Latest Breaking News from the Supreme Court

In a 6-3 ruling on Thursday, June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of race in college admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, outlawing the use of race in college admissions in general. The Conversation reached out to three legal scholars to explain…

The Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s push to forgive more than $400 billion in student loan debts for millions of borrowers.

The Prime Minister used a press conference about the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan to lash out at the judges' ruling and pledge to challenge the decision at the UK's highest court

Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor see that impact.

The Supreme Court effectively ends affirmative action. The ruling on Biden's student debt forgiveness plan is expected today. The contract between actors and studios expires tonight.

Fortune 500 companies, including Salesforce and Microsoft, reacted to the Supreme Court's decision to reject affirmative action at U.S. colleges and universities.

With the Supreme Court having ruled against affirmative action policies in higher education, some legal experts worry about the future of workplace diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Seductions of wealth don’t necessitate a quid pro quo

Twenty-five years of experimentation under race-neutral admissions policies — and a half-billion dollars later — the University of California system says they still can't meet their diversity goals.

The Supreme Court has spoken, invalidating racial preferences in college admissions as was widely anticipated. The six-justice conservative majority deemed the boost that universities give some applicants purely on the basis of their ethnicity or skin color incompatible with the U.S. Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the laws.

For decades, conservatives have railed against judicial activism, but Thursday’s decision striking down affirmative action by colleges and universities in admissions was the height of conservative judicial activism. The court rejected almost half a century of precedents, overturned decisions made by public and private universities across the country, and ignored…