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A pair of legal challenges targeting race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina are part of another politically-charged docket this year.

Supporters and critics will have to wait — likely until next June — to learn the fate of race-based admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The U.S. Supreme Court heard more than 2 1/2 hours of arguments Monday for and against UNC’s admissions policies.

The Supreme Court on Monday waded deeply into thorny issues of race, with the court's GOP-appointed justices expressing skepticism over schools' use of racial box-checking to promote enrollment of Black or Hispanic students.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for two cases on Monday that challenge race-based admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. A conservative majority court seems to be open to overturning race-based college admissions policies.

A conservative majority on the Supreme Court is expected to be open to the idea of ending the use of race, or affirmative action, in college admissions.

The Supreme Court gathered Monday to debate one of the most important questions this term: Whether colleges may consider the race of their applicants.

A majority of the justices sounded inclined to further restrict the use of race in college admissions during arguments in the first of two high profile cases at the Supreme Court.

Tetra Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Monday will revisit the question of affirmative action in higher education. Justices are hearing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled skepticism on Monday toward the legali...