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Multiple Republican presidential candidates expressed support Sunday for the Supreme Court's decisions last week on free speech, affirmative action and student loans.

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A footnote in the majority opinion leads those in higher ed to ask, isn’t our national role important, too?

FIRST ON FOX: GOP Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Calif., is pushing for universities to make their use of personality tests in college admissions public following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision effectively shutting down affirmative action in university admissions. The new bill - titled the Helping Applicants Receive Valid and Reasonable Decisions (HARVARD) Act - is

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Despite what President Biden says, unfortunately, to most Americans this is a normal Supreme Court.

The rejection of “independent state legislature” doctrine means fights against gerrymanders and racist laws can proceed.

Jackson has been a powerful opposing voice as the right-wing court stripped rights from marginalized groups.

Schools will have to, on the one hand, reconfigure admission practices to comply with the ruling, while launching more extensive outreach and recruitment efforts to communities of color and low-income applicants.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected race-based admissions in higher education at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The ruling likely calls into question the legality of most race-based college admissions policies, especially at elite colleges.