#Bestof2022: 2/2 Asking SCOTUS to answer Affirmative Action's history and unknowns. @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst (Originally posted February 2, 2022)
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#Bestof2022: 2/2 Asking SCOTUS to answer Affirmative Action's history and unknowns. @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst (Originally posted February 2, 2022)
https://www.hoover.org/research/affirmative-action-showdown
Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batsworth, Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, |
| 0:09.7 | writing of the case that right now is before the Supreme Court. The question asked by two |
| 0:15.8 | different cases. One, the students for fair admissions at Versus Harvard and one, |
| 0:21.9 | students for fair admissions versus the University of North Carolina, turning on the Supreme |
| 0:27.1 | Court case, grew to versus Bullins, are turning on Title VI of this of the Rights Act. However, |
| 0:33.1 | Richard also introduces the fact that this language has been current in academic hiring for |
| 0:40.6 | some time. I can't date it, but I can say that it was a revelation to me. These guidelines |
| 0:46.2 | Richard links in his piece to the University of California at Berkeley. The issue is diversity, |
| 0:51.8 | equity and inclusion. And as I understand it Richard, in order to be successful in an application |
| 0:58.9 | to join these faculties, it is not only your research, say we're dealing with STEM, the science |
| 1:05.8 | inquiries, not only your research, but you also must submit a document, a paper, a record. I'm |
| 1:13.3 | not sure what it looks like because you will be judged or measured on the basis of diverse |
| 1:21.7 | diversity, equity and inclusion. So that's been in place for some time. Is that correct Richard? |
| 1:26.5 | Well, it's certainly for the last four or five years, but the momentum on this is getting much |
| 1:31.8 | more strong. And law schools in our also, for example, putting critical race theories |
| 1:37.0 | and required subject in the curriculum where the viewers you have to do two things. You have to |
| 1:41.2 | be one critical about things until you have to agree with us on everything that we start to say. |
| 1:45.5 | But if you go back to the 1960s and 50s, you will remember that one of the great issues of the |
| 1:50.9 | time with the Loyalty O's. In order to teach in universities, did you have to agree to oppose |
| 1:56.0 | communism or something of this sort? And there was a very famous case involving a fine gentleman |
| 2:00.5 | named George Anna Stoppolo who refused to find these O's as a matter of principle, the Supreme |
| 2:06.2 | Court of Health O's which I thought was a terrible mistake and George could never practice law |
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