Supreme Court wont hear racial discrimination challenge to TJ high school admissions [Video]

The Supreme Court declined to hear another case Tuesday over the role of race in school admissions, months after the conservative majority struck down affirmative action in college admissions.

The justices refused to review whether a revamped admissions policy at Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ), one of the nation’s top-ranked high schools, discriminates against Asian Americans. 

Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas publicly dissented, saying they would have taken up the case.

“The Court’s willingness to swallow the aberrant decision below is hard to understand. We should wipe the decision off the books, and because the Court refuses to do so, I must respectfully dissent,” Alito wrote.

Last term, the high court along ideological lines ruled against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, effectively barring race-conscious admissions policies at colleges nationwide. 

The TJ case tested schools’ ability to encourage diversity using race-neutral criteria, and the justices’ refusal to hear the dispute leaves …