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FILE – Students walk through Harvard Yard, April 27, 2022, on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The future of affirmative action in higher education is on the table as the Supreme Court wades into the admissions programs at the nation’s oldest public and private universities. The justices are hearing arguments Monday, Oct. 31, in challenges to policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard that consider race among many factors in evaluating applications for admission. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education Monday in lengthy arguments in which the justices are wrestling with difficult questions of race. The justices scheduled at least an hour and forty minutes of arguments and were hearing from from six different lawyers in challenges to policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard.
Originally published at Associated Press