'Devastating blow' to US education

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 01, 2023 12:08 am

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Thursday (Friday in Manila) banned the use of race and ethnicity in university admissions, dealing a major blow to a decades-old practice that boosted educational opportunities for African Americans and other minorities.

One year after overturning the guarantee of a woman's right to have an abortion, the court's conservative majority again demonstrated its readiness to scrap liberal policies set in law since the 1960s.

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