The Supreme Court protects racial discrimination in Fairfax County

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The supposed conservative majority on the Supreme Court has once again declined to weigh in on a contentious issue and will allow a lower court ruling to stand with seriously harmful implications.

On Tuesday, the court announced it had declined to hear a case that argued that changes to the admissions process of Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Virginia, had unfairly harmed Asian students. The changes were made in 2020 with the explicit goal of increasing the number of black and Hispanic students and reducing the number of Asian students.

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