Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress makes the following findings: 21st century elite college admissions functions as the Nation’s sorting machine for prestige and opportunity, allocating a limited number of valuable credentials. For decades United States colleges and universities adopted admissions and policies practices that rendered special preferences to applicants on the basis of race. In Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 143 S. Ct. 2141 (2023), the Supreme Court of the United States found race-based admissions policies to be in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The Court further held that universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today . Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( 42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq. ) prohibits entities that receive Federal funding from discriminating based on race. Following the Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, several United States colleges and universities issued statements or unveiled new policies at odds with the letter and spirit of that ruling.
Institutions of higher education, including their offices of admission, must comply with the Constitution and laws of the United States, as interpreted by the judiciary. It is the duty of the United States Government to protect the civil rights of its citizens and to enforce the Constitution and laws of the United States, as interpreted by the judiciary.