It's Tuesday, January 25th. I'm Gideon Resnick.

And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What A Day.

We're we're happy to live in a world where Joe Biden doesn't realize he's saying his

internal monologue out loud into a microphone.

Yeah, we're just lucky that this time he's calling Peter Ducey a stupid son of a bitch

after a press conference and not thinking about what he'd like to do to an ice cream cone.

Oh God.

On today's show, NATO is sending military reinforcements to Eastern Europe amid tensions

at the Ukrainian border, plus four attorneys general filed a privacy lawsuit against Google.

But first, the Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will once again decide whether or

not the consideration of race and university admissions violates civil rights laws.

As recently as 2016, the court has ruled repeatedly that universities do have a limited

right to consider an applicant's race when evaluating potential candidates for admission.

However, the court's decisive conservative majority could up in decades of precedent

on this issue.

The cases which are being reviewed together accuse Harvard and the University of North Carolina

of discriminating against Asian American students.

In Harvard's case, the lawsuit alleges that Asian American applicants were discriminated

against on the basis of subjective standards to gauge personal qualities like leadership.

At UNC, the plaintiffs argue that the university had discriminated against these applicants,

as well as white ones, in favor of admitting black, Native American, and Hispanic applicants.

The fact that Harvard is a private institution while UNC as public means their subject to

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