Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling in June, colleges and universities can no longer consider race in admissions. Many academics believe that this same criteria is going to make its way into the private sector, and are calling into question the potentially discriminatory aspects of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives at many corporations.
“The court’s rule that an educational institution ‘may never discriminate based on race’ now applies with equal force to employers,” says Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman, who told NPR that he also believes that “there’s a high probability, a very high probability, that a majority of this current Supreme Court will say the exact same thing” about corporate hiring too.