Supreme Court Flexes Conservative Muscles in Term’s Final Days

  • Final-week rulings among five that split 6-3 on ideology
  • Justices to hear cases on gun rights, federal power in fall
Demonstrators in favor of student loan debt forgiveness rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington on June 30, 2023. Photographer: Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg
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The US Supreme Court waited until the end of its nine-month term to remind the country just how much muscle its 6-3 conservative majority has.

In a trio of rulings Thursday and Friday, the justices outlawed the use of race in college admissions, struck down President Joe Biden’s student-loan relief plan and crafted a First Amendment exception to anti-discrimination laws.