The Supreme Court of the United States handed down another controversial ruling last month, when it ruled, 6-3, that affirmative action programs in two colleges violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

The ruling, which follows other contentious decisions by the court, bans using race as a factor in college admissions, overturning decades of practices designed to provide more opportunity in higher education to qualified students from minority groups.

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