Supreme Court Rules on Three Major Rights Issues
June 29, 2013
Ryan P. Haygood, director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks outside the Supreme Court.
From VOA Learning English, this is In the News.
The United States Supreme Court made decisions on three major rights cases this week.
On Monday the court released a decision on education policy for minorities. But, the high court chose not to give a final ruling on the policy known as affirmative action.
The case involves a young white woman, Abigail Fisher, who was rejected by the University of Texas. Her lawyers argued that universities should not be permitted to consider race when trying to accept a diverse class of students. They said that considering someone’s race in the admissions process violates their constitutional right to equal protection under the law.
Seven of the nine justices voted to return the case to a lower court saying it had not fully studied the university’s actions.
Opponents praised the Supreme Court for ordering the lower court to enforce a narrower version of the school’s affirmative action plan. Civil rights activists welcomed the decision because it did not cancel the policy.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court did cancel a part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Congress passed the law to ensure that African Americans in southern states could vote. The court decision ends federal supervision of election laws in states with a history of voter suppression.
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