Activists rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, as the justices hear oral arguments in the affirmative action cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Activists rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, as the justices hear oral arguments in the affirmative action cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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CNN  — 

The Supreme Court on Thursday said colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as an express factor in admissions.

In a fiery dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by the court’s other liberals, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, said the opinion “rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress.”

Read the court’s opinion and dissent below.