Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host, Andrew Heath.

And I had to read a Supreme Court decision again.

Ugh.

Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States

effectively banned race considerations in higher education.

It has outlawed affirmative action.

A bunch of people freaked out.

People are freaking out folks.

So I read the whole damn case so that you don't have to.

And I'm going to bring on an attorney friend to explain it to us

who I can help questions about Anastasia Bowdoin of Cato.

We're going to get into affirmative action,

why it is or isn't constitutional,

and we're even going to invoke some heavy duty thinkers

like Frederick Douglas, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King

Jr. and George De Kaye.

By the end of today's program, you will understand the nuts and bolts of the recent Supreme Court decision

and why the judiciary has effectively put an end to affirmative action in higher ed.

Right here on the political orphanage. But first the political orphanage is

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