Major breaking news out of the Supreme Court in a blockbuster opinion, the court outlawed

affirmative action in college admissions, that means that universities can no longer

consider race when looking at applications.

That ruling overturned almost 50 years of precedent.

Now universities and colleges are scrambling to revisit and revise their existing practices

and policies.

When the Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action in schools late last month,

the ruling joined a growing list of decisions that for many have felt disappointing, but

not totally surprising.

The court's six justice conservative majority has forged ahead overturning major longstanding

presidents, like access to abortion, voting rights, and protections for LGBTQ people.

Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion with the majority, called affirmative

action policies rudderless, and wrote that they quote, fly in the face of our color-blind

constitution.

Justice Katanijee Brown Jackson, the first black woman to serve on the court, struck

back, writing that deemed race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.

Affirmative action began in the 60s, in a series of executive actions by presidents John

F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

They mandated that employers on federally funded projects take affirmative action, tire

without bias and discrimination, as a way of remedying some of the systemic racial

ills of the past.

Elite universities soon picked up the practice in an effort to diversify their student

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