He United States Supreme Court ruled this Thursday against positive discrimination in universities, when you think that Harvard And Karolinska University from North they violated Constitution using race as a factor in the admissions process.

The opinion was written by the Chief Justice, Judge John Roberts, and supported by five Conservative Justices. Three progressive judges opposed.

“Many universities (…) have erroneously concluded that the cornerstone of a person’s personality is not the difficulties overcome, the skills acquired or the lessons learned, but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate such a decision,” the proposal says.

However, the ruling notes that there is nothing to prevent universities from considering how a student’s experience of racism has affected their lives in the admissions process.

In particular, the judges find that the admissions process at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s two oldest institutions, violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees equality Before the Law.

In the North Carolina case, the prosecution argued that the admissions policy discriminated against white and Asian candidates compared to African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, while at Harvard, a group of Asian students denounced the use of subjective criteria to limit the number of candidates. accepted candidates.