SCOTUS Ends Affirmative Action, Sort of

This is the end of the beginning of the fight for equality of educational opportunity.

Forty-five years and a day after one Supreme Court justice opened the door to race-based college admissions (the 1978 Bakke case), six justices closed it. The Court has finally recognized that the Constitution prohibits such racial discrimination. In the words of Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion, “ending racial discrimination means ending all of…