The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to take up a case challenging a Virginia high school’s efforts to promote diversity in education, rejecting an appeal by a coalition of parents of students who say a Virginia public school’s admissions policy racially discriminates against Asian Americans.
Despite a forceful dissent by Republican-appointed Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the majority of the court left in place a lower court’s ruling rejecting the claim by the plaintiffs that admissions policies at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection guarantee.
Alito and Thomas dissented from the decision to deny hearing the case.
“We should wipe the decision off the books,” Alito wrote of the lower court’s ruling that allowed the school’s admissions policy to remain in place.
The Virginia magnet school introduced a
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