SCOTUS strikes down affirmative action in college admissions, rules race-based decisions must come to an end

The 6-3 decision split along ideological lines found that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's admissions process was unlawful.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in a 6-3 decision that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s admissions processes were unlawful and that race-based decisions in higher education must come to an end.

“We have permitted race-based admissions only within the confines of narrow restrictions,” Chief Justice John Rob…