Court will hear affirmative-action challenges separately, allowing Jackson to participate in UNC case

Court will hear affirmative-action challenges separately, allowing Jackson to participate in UNC case

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The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will consider two challenges to the role of race in college admissions separately, rather than – as it had originally planned – together. That news, which came in a brief order from the court, was not unexpected: It allows Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s newest justice, to participate in one of the cases, involving the consideration of race in the University of North Carolina’s undergraduate admissions process, while recusing herself … Read the rest