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This is CBS, I In The World, I'm John Bachelor, the Supreme Court, 6-3, the majority ruling

that the Gruder Case from 2003 is now to paraphrase Justice Thomas, effectively overruled.

I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, because affirmative action

in the United States has a long history, at least beginning with the end of the Civil

War in the middle of the 19th century.

It is part of the tragedy of America, that the founding fathers were not able to overcome

the resistance of the slaveocracy, and eventually led to the catastrophe of the Civil War.

We're still living with the outcome of that war in terms of the 14th Amendment, the

Civil Protection Clause, and in terms of the Friedman's Bureau, which was an effort

by the then radical Republicans in the Congress who controlled it to account for the brutality

visited on African Americans in the previous decades.

And also, the court ever since then has zig-zagged in its opinion of what is to be done with

the brutality visited upon those who are regarded as not first grade, not first class citizens.

Professor, a very good evening to you.

I begin with the Civil War because the 14th Amendment is a direct result of part of the

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