Supreme Court declines to hear racial discrimination case regarding school admissions

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case regarding racial discrimination in school admissions. 

The case was brought forward by the Pacific Legal Foundation about an admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia that allegedly discriminates against Asian students, according to The Hill.

Last year, the school implemented an admissions policy that was meant to create a "race-neutral criteria to achieve a diverse student body."

The legal activist group argued the policy discriminated against Asian students at Jefferson, considering a decrease in them – from 73% to 54% – in first freshman class under the policy, according to PBS.

Justice Samuel Alito dissented publicly and said he would have taken up the case. 

“The Court’s willingness to swallow the aberrant decision below is hard to understand. We should wipe the decision off the books, and because the Court refuses to do so, I must respectfully dissent,” Alito wrote, according to The Hill.