Listening to an analysis of the Supreme Court case decided today regarding affirmative action at colleges, it sounds like they’re saying that the colleges may not allow the race of an applicant per se to affect their scoring for admission.

Does this mean that laws that favor certain classes of people, based, say, on race, are on their face unconstitutional? So, for example, if Congress was to pass a reparations bill to address the lingering effects of slavery, it would be struck down as unconstitutional?