Affirmative Action

In its June ruling outlawing affirmative action in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court excepted the nation's military academies. A new lawsuit seeks to change that.

The decision reverses decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices.

The high court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases brought by a group led by the same man who previously lost an affirmative action case against the University of Texas at Austin.

The decision is a victory for the Trump administration's efforts to pressure schools to abandon affirmative action policies still allowed by the Supreme Court.

In an attempt to rectify years of discrimination, "affirmative action" policies in the United States were implemented to aid women and people of color…

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From Texas Standard: Plaintiffs have filed a new lawsuit challenging the University of Texas at Austin's race-based admission rules. Unlike a well-known...

Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court in a narrow decision on Thursday decided that UT-Austin’s “use of race” in deciding its college admissions was…

From Texas Standard: The court upheld an affirmative action program at the University of Texas at Austin, ending a legal battle that started in 2008. In...

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning upheld a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier decision that the University of Texas at Austin can use affirmative…