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A 2003 Supreme Court Decision Upholding Affirmative Action Planted the Seeds of Its Overturning, as Justices Then and Now Thought Racism an Easily Solved Problem | Opinion

The conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 2023, outlawed affirmative action programs that were designed to correct centuries of racist disenfranchisement in higher education.