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The justices will hand down their next round of opinions on Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. The Supreme Court has left this term's blockbuster decisions for last, with rulings expected this week on student loans , affirmative action and more. The justices will hand down their next round of opinions on Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. There are 10 total cases remaining from the term that began back in October. Their rulings will decide the fate of millions of Americans with federal student loans, a 40-year precedent of race-conscious college admissions processes, how federal elections are run in the U.S. and LGBTQ+ rights. MORE: Chief Justice John Roberts defends Supreme Court's 'highest standards of conduct,' offers no new rules Already this term, the Supreme Court has weighed in on cases involving the Voting Rights Act, the Biden administration's deportation policy, the Indian Child Welfare Act and social media liability. Here's a closer look at four major issues left to...

The first Black female justice accused the Supreme Court's conservative majority of a "let-them-eat-cake obliviousness" on the issue of race. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court's conservative majority of a "let-them -eat-cake obliviousness " on the issue of race in its landmark ruling on affirmative action . The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the way Harvard University and the University of North Carolina use race-conscious admissions policies, stating they violated the equal protections clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the opinion, said the schools' programs had employed race "in a negative manner" and lacked meaningful end points. Instead, the court said institutions of higher education can only consider how race has impacted an individual applicant through their personal experiences or narrative. "In other words, the student must be treated based on his or her e...

Mike Pence on ABC's "This Week" celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling that effectively ends affirmative action at U.S. college Former vice president and 2024 presidential hopeful Mike Pence on Sunday celebrated the Supreme Court's landmark ruling that effectively ends affirmative action at U.S. colleges, telling ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl that while he thought there was once "a time" for the practice, "those days are over." "I think there was a time for affirmative action ... to open the doors of our colleges and universities to minority students and particularly African Americans who may have been denied access. But I think those days are over," he said. "I have every confidence that African Americans and other minority Americans are going to continue to compete and succeed in universities around the country, but we're going to do it with a colorblind society that I think is the aspiration of e...

The personal experiences of Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor will share the spotlight when the Supreme Court’s opinions on affirmative action are handed down The Supreme Court's most senior conservative, Justice Clarence Thomas, and its most senior liberal, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, both rose from humble beginnings to join the elite ranks of Yale Law School -- and both have publicly credited race-based affirmative action initiatives with helping them get there. But both justices have now staked out starkly opposite positions on whether the policy should be allowed to continue, facing off in a pair of blockbuster cases that will be decided this month and address the future of race in college admissions. "Even as these people have very similar experiences across the board, the way that they react to them is radically different," said Leah Wright Rigueur, an associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University who specializes in race, Politics and civil rights. ...