目前的這個supreme court 亞裔告哈佛招生歧視案可能會贏

案件

Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

原告 plaintiff

Students for Fair Admissions（representing more than a dozen Asian-American students rejected by Harvard）。 【該團體(ti) 不是亞(ya) 裔團體(ti) ；機構的金主多為(wei) 保守派；機構的領導人Edward Blum 不是律師，也不是政客，但喜歡打任何和種族有關(guan) 的案子 】

被告 defendant

the President and Fellows of Harvard College 【所以針對的主要是哈佛的本科招生】

2014年上訴：

原告告哈佛在錄取過程中存在非法的按種族分配名額的行為(wei) ；亞(ya) 裔申請者的學術成績，課外活動，麵試表現打分都是比較高的（給予16萬(wan) 份學生申請文檔），但哈佛在主觀參數比如“個(ge) 性”這塊給亞(ya) 裔申請者的打分偏低，存在種族歧視行為(wei) , 以此降低錄取亞(ya) 裔的比重。 ... 

They say that Harvard’s admission process amounts to an illegal quota system. Asians outperformed all other racial groups on every measure of academic achievement: grades, SAT scores and the most AP exams passed. They had more extracurricular activities than their white counterparts. They were rated by interviewers who had met them as virtually on par with their white counterparts in their personal qualities.

Yet Harvard admissions officers, many of whom had never met these applicants, scored them collectively as the worst of all groups in the one area — personality — that was subjective enough to be readily manipulable to serve Harvard’s institutional interests.

哈佛反駁自己的錄取行為(wei) 是為(wei) 了促進多樣性，不僅(jin) 僅(jin) 是種族層麵的，也有收入，想法，地理和天賦的多樣性【想法和天賦就很虛了】 Harvard says its admissions system is finely calibrated to produce a spectrum of diversity, not only of race, but of income, ideas, geographic origin and talents

19年敗訴：

18年底的時候開庭，當時能立案有很大的一部分原因是時任Trump 政府的支持 【注意，不是說Trump 政府支持亞(ya) 裔，隻是保守派想推掉affirmative action】

19年的時候法庭判決(jue) “哈佛歧視”不成立：

法官Allison Burroughs裁定：雖然哈佛的招生流程不完美，但不構成種族歧視

... federal Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that although Harvard’s admissions system was “not perfect,” it nonetheless met the legal standard needed to ensure that it was not motivated by racial prejudice or stereotyping.

這個(ge) 結果當然不會(hui) 絲(si) 毫影響Students for Fair Admissions 的安排，因為(wei) 保守派在乎的不是哈佛有沒有歧視，而是想推翻affirmative action，而要實現這個(ge) 目標是一定要去最高法（Supreme Court）的.

對於(yu) 亞(ya) 裔來說，因為(wei) 本身也是少數族裔，大多無心推翻affirmative action，也支持這些diversity的論調，隻是覺得diverse 不應該通過犧牲亞(ya) 裔來實現。
“Look, I support Harvard’s right to pursue the diversity they want,” said one Asian-American who described herself as a “staunch supporter of affirmative action.” “But of course they discriminate against Asian kids.”

2020年上訴到最高法

2020年2月，在上次判決(jue) 4個(ge) 半月以後，Students for Fair Admissions 上訴到最高法。

A group that opposes affirmative action filed an appeal Tuesday of a federal ruling that Harvard had not intentionally discriminated against Asian-American applicants, ratcheting up a challenge to decades of Supreme Court decisions upholding race-conscious selection in college admissions.

按照最高法一般做事的流程，案子會(hui) 在2022年10月開審，到2023年的春夏出結果

If the Supreme Court follows its usual practices, it will hear arguments in its next term, which starts in October. A decision is not likely until the spring or summer of 2023. 按照常規來說，要打破affirmative action 的先例判決(jue) 勝率是非常低的，但是目前最高法打大法官保守派占絕大多數，所以結果變得很不確定了。

亞(ya) 裔內(nei) 部對於(yu) 這個(ge) 案例依然各執一詞

有支持的 Jason Xu, the president of the Silicon Valley Chinese Association Foundation, which filed a brief supporting the challengers in the Harvard case, said many Asian Americans believe that their academically high-performing children were passed over because they were of Asian descent.

也有反對的

But another group, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, took the opposite tack, saying in a statement that affirmative action was necessary because “the reality is that race continues to unfairly limit educational opportunities for students of color.”

當然兩(liang) 方談的其實是這個(ge) 案子的不同方麵。一方支持的是不能歧視亞(ya) 裔；另一方反對的是推翻affirmative action，其本質上也是不能歧視少數族裔。

到是havard，大大方方的開了個(ge) 網頁，公開了下案子的時間軸

https://www.harvard.edu/admissionscase/lawsuit/

要是錄取的具體(ti) 數據也能透明些就好了。

引用2003年最高法庭審類似案子時候，Justice Sandra Day O’Connor的結案詞來收尾 “we expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences” in the university admissions context “will no longer be necessary.”  

參考文章

Adam Liptak and Anemona Hartocollis. "Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and U.N.C." New York Times, Jan. 24,2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/politics/supreme-court-affirmative-action-harvard-unc.html.

Anemona Hartocollis. "The Affirmative Action Battle at Harvard Is Not Over." New York Times, Feb. 18, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/us/affirmative-action-harvard.html.

Jay Caspian Kang. "Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans?." New York Times,  July 29, 2021（updated）, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/magazine/where-does-affirmative-action-leave-asian-americans.html.

John McWhorter. "Stop Making Asian Americans Pay the Price for Campus Diversity." New York Times,  Sept. 23, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/opinion/race-admissions.html.

Wesley Yang. "Harvard Is Wrong That Asians Have Terrible Personalities." New York Times, June 25, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/harvard-asian-american-racism.html.