In another major decision from this current Supreme Court, the decision has been made that

affirmative action at colleges is unconstitutional. This is a huge, huge story. Key points from CNBC's

Dan Mangin, who really sums this up, the Supreme Court ruled that the affirmative action

admission policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which gave weight to a

would be students race are unconstitutional. The ruling is a massive blow to decades old

efforts to boost enrollment of racial minorities at American universities. The Court's majority

opinion said the school's affirmative action programs, quote, unavoidably employ race in

a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping and lack meaningful end points. Justice

Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissent quote, today this court stands in the way and rolls

back decades of precedent and momentous progress. There are those on the right who were never

in favor of such a policy. There are those on the right and left who were at one point

in favor of such a policy, but believe it is no longer necessary. And there are those

mostly on the left who continue to believe that such race-based affirmative action policies

are still necessary based on current circumstances. You know, as I think about this, I don't believe

that this is the right decision right now today, but I do believe that the right direction

for such policies would eventually be an off ramp. Now the off ramp should be at a time

when we can point and say, here is the panorama. Here is the situation in which we can now

say affirmative action should be class-based. It should potentially be geography-based in

some ways, which relates to class, etc. But maybe enough has been done where the race-based

component need not be a part anymore. And I want to be really clear, I don't think we

are quite there yet. But the time was coming. Colleges knew that it was coming. Activists

on the left that we've interviewed have in many cases felt that this is a matter of when

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