After Roe, The Supreme Court Seems Poised to Undo More Major Precedents

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Affirmative action, indigenous rights and election integrity could all be radically reshaped by the far-right court this term, as Chief Justice John Roberts continues to insist the political battlefield is a non-partisan institution. Here are the cases you should be watching.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg

This episode was produced by Lexie Schapitl. It was edited by Krishnadev Calamur and Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Research and fact-checking by Katherine Swartz.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast on Susan Davis, I cover politics.
0:08.1	I'm Dominican Montenores, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:11.1	I'm Nina Tottenberg.
0:12.1	I cover the Supreme Court.
0:14.2	And that Supreme Court is currently in the middle of a term that could reshape the law
0:18.2	when it comes to big issues like affirmative action, gay rights and voting rights.
0:23.4	Conservatives have a 6-3 super majority on the court and they haven't been afraid to
0:27.5	take up divisive social issues that pass courts have often sidesteped.
0:32.6	This all comes as Americans' confidence in the court is at record lows.
0:37.0	Gallup tracks this issue and it shows just one quarter of Americans today say they have
0:42.5	a great deal of confidence in the institution.
0:45.8	So let's dig into some of these cases.
0:49.3	Nina, two of the closely watched cases involve race.
0:53.0	Can you talk us through them?
0:54.4	Well, the first one is affirmative action.
0:56.7	This is another one of these huge cases in which the court has for a half century upheld
1:02.6	affirmative action programs in higher education.
1:05.5	In this case, it's Harvard and the University of North Carolina, one private, one public.
1:10.8	Their programs are typical of programs across the country saying that race can be used as
1:15.2	one of many factors in college and university admission decisions.
1:20.6	The precedent in this case dates back to the 70s and the court subsequently reaffirmed
1:27.5	that decision twice.
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