Justice Samuel Alito issued on Tuesday a strongly-worded dissent from the Supreme Court decision to deny a writ of certiorari to review a case concerning affirmative action at a prominent high school.
The Court declined certiorari in the case Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board, where a group of parents and students at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, sued to revoke a new admissions policy that they claimed was discriminatory against Asian Americans.
Amid the Court’s denial, which left in place a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that affirmed the policy, Alito wrote a dissent that accused the majority of detracting from the ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard that declared race-based admissions policies unconstitutional.
