Conservative justices give sympathetic hearing in Fisher v University of Texas but warned that halt to affirmative action would see student diversity ‘plummet’A US supreme court justice has suggested that black students may benefit from the halt of affirmative action admissions policies in US universities because many are “pushed ahead too fast” and should go to “lesser schools” instead.
The comments by Antonin Scalia came as conservatives on the court gave a sympathetic hearing to a white student who claims she was deprived of a site at the University of Texas due to her race.
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Source: theguardian.com