The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to hear a challenge on contentious admission rules at a prestigious Northern Virginia high school looking to diversify its student body.
The justices decided to punt on the case which could brush away the remnants of affirmative action in education.
As Politico reports:
The justices who declined to add the case to their docket did not provide a reason for their decision to deny review in the suit asserting that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology discriminates against Asian and Asian American applicants. The Supreme Court’s action allows the school to maintain the new admissions policy. However, two members of the high court–Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas–expressed strong disagreement with their colleagues’ refusal to take up the case. In a 10-page dissent, Alito railed against a federal appeals court ruling that he called “flagrantly wrong” for holding that some discrimination against Asian Americans was legally tolerable as long as they remained overrepresented in the school. “The holding below effectively licenses official actors to discriminate against any racial group with impunity as long as that group continues to perform at a higher rate than other groups. That is indefensible,” Alito wrote, joined by Thomas.
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This story first appeared in American Liberty News. Republished with permission.