Breaking News Edition: Supreme Court Overturns Affirmative Action - Interview with Sharon McMahon

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor after nearly 50 years. The decision forces colleges and universities to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies without considering race. We break down the decision with Supreme Court watcher and Mo News Podcast friend Sharon McMahon of SharonSaysSo. We discuss the arguments by the various justices (including the very personal language in the opinions), the exceptions to the ruling and what it means for colleges, employers, the military and the nation. The conversation was part of a breaking news Instagram Live on @mosheh on Thursday afternoon following the decision. We also discuss the upcoming major student loan case, and other Supreme Court headlines including calls for them to adopt a code of ethics. **Mo News Premium For Extra Content, Private Podcast: (Click To Join)** – Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award- winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@monews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Modnews podcast. I'm Mochua Nunu. We have a special
0:07.5	breaking news edition of the pod for you today, breaking down the big Supreme Court decision
0:12.8	on Thursday, overturning affirmative action after nearly 50 years. The highest court in the land
0:18.6	has declared that race cannot be a factor in college and university admissions. It's now going
0:24.2	to force higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. I didn't
0:29.3	Instagram live interview with Sharon McMahon of the government education page Sharon Cesso.
0:34.0	She's a Supreme Court watcher. We often have her on around big cases. I know many of you
0:38.6	follow her accounts as well. Over the course of this conversation, we answered your questions,
0:42.9	broke down the decision, the dramatic opinions, some back and forth. It got personal in these opinions
0:48.5	between the justices calling each other out. We talk about also what this means for colleges,
0:53.3	employment, and later on in the conversation, we talked about a couple other big cases regarding
0:58.3	LGBT rights in the First Amendment and student loans. Will the Biden forgiveness plan be found
1:04.4	constitutional? We will know in the next day or two. We also talked about all the controversy
1:09.2	related to ethics and the Supreme Court. Before we get started here, a reminder to consider
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1:38.4	over at mod.news slash premium. All right, with that, here's our conversation.
1:43.6	There she is. Hey. How are you? Good. How are you? How do you get? I kind of imagine you like
1:51.1	Rocky Balboa prepping for this week's share. Are you writing? Are you drinking raw eggs?
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