The Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot set aside a certain percentage of its contracts for minority contractors.

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In the 1989 case City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co., the Supreme Court ruled that setting aside contracts based on race or ethnicity was unconstitutional unless there was evidence of past discrimination and a narrowly tailored plan to remedy that discrimination. Therefore, the government cannot simply set aside a certain percentage of contracts for minority contractors without meeting these criteria.

The Supreme Court Has Ruled That the Government Cannot Set