Wade was.īeginning with President Ronald Reagan, Republican presidents appointed justices whom they picked to overturn not just Roe but the practice of affirmative action. For nearly five decades, affirmative action in university admissions has been as much of a target as Roe v. Neither the decision nor the vote surprised anyone. She participated only in the parts of the case addressing the constitutionality of the admissions policy at the University of North Carolina but not her undergraduate alma mater, Harvard College, where she was a member of the Board of Overseers. The only differences were Chief Justice John Roberts, who-though he wrote his own concurrence in the abortion case, did not join in striking down Roe -wrote Thursday’s majority opinion on affirmative action, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. President and Fellows of Harvard College on lined up almost identically to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision a year ago, overturning federal protection for abortion rights. The vote in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.
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