WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law that prioritizes reuniting Native American children in foster care or the adoption system with members of their families and tribes. 
In a 7-2 ruling, the justices both affirmed the act’s overarching goal of remedying the nation’s woeful history of removing Native American children from their communities, and held the 1970’s era law does not unlawfully impose federal authority in areas traditionally reg...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden strongly criticized the Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling against using race-based affirmative action in college admissions, saying the decision “walked away from decades of precedent.”
“We cannot let this decision be the last word,” Biden said in a White House address. “The court can render a decision, but it cannot change what America stands for.” 
According to the court’s ruling, the affirmative action policies implemented by Harvard University and the Universit...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a ruling that will have wide-ranging implications for academia.
The 6-3 decision effectively overturns decades of court precedent by establishing the universities’ affirmative action policies violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. 
In addition to last year’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, today’s ruling ma...