Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said universities will be doing a “terrible disservice to future leaders of this country” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on considering race in university admissions unconstitutional.
“What isn't being talked about enough is the harm this is going to do for students, not just black and Latino students but white and Asian American students,” Khanna said on MSNBC on Thursday.
The majority opinion was written Chief Justice John Roberts in both cases, with Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh issuing concurring opinions and Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissenting opinion. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself in the Harvard case due her ties to the university as a graduate of Harvard and former member on the Board of Overseers, though she wrote a dissent in the North Carolina case.
California passed its own measure on affirmative action in 1996 with the Civil Rights Initiative, a ballot proposition prohibiting the state from discriminating against or allowing preferential treatment to those on the basis of race, sex, gender and other factors in employment, contracting, and admissions.
Khanna said he can “understand some of the sentiment” regarding support for the Supreme Court’s decision, emphasizing he represents California's 17th Congressional District, which contains a significant proportion of Asian Americans.
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