Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181, is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that race-based affirmative action programs in most college admissions violate t
Students protesting at Copley Square in support of the lawsuit on October 14, 2018
Chief Justice Roberts delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citiz
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
…United States Supreme Court ruling that race-based affirmative action programs in most college admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. With its companion case, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, the Supreme Court effectively overruled Grutter v. Bollinger…
Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan, author of the Citizenship Clause
Rep. John Bingham of Ohio was the principal author of the Equal Protection Clause.
Thurgood Marshall served as chief counsel in the landmark Fourteenth Amendment decision Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Senate and House votes on the Fourteenth Amendment