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The Michael Berry Show

Did The Supreme Court Really Strike Down Affirmative Action In College Admissions?

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

The Michael Barry Joe, a major ruling coming down from the Supreme Court this morning, a

0:08.4

tectonic shift in potentially and university admissions, depending on how this plays itself out,

0:14.5

where the Supreme Court struck affirmative action admissions policies for universities.

0:23.1

The father of three-year-old Clara on July 4th should be three, and five-year-old in December

0:30.9

Miriam Blackman, professor of Josh Blackman, the South Texas College of Law, is our guest professor,

0:36.2

since we're on the subject. Do you have anything to offer on olympic? Do you even know what olympic is?

0:42.7

Is that that empty that weight loss drug people are getting?

0:45.5

It is. See, this is why we had to do okay, Mr. Smarty Pants is because I get all these emails

0:49.3

going boy he sure is smart and I go smart Einstein didn't know to wear rubber boots when it was

0:54.4

raining three inches deep. He's smart in his area don't ask him other questions. Fair or unfair?

1:04.3

Fair. Okay, I'm just kidding you. He's the hell of a dad I know that. Professor, so what do you

1:10.9

make of the six three ruling by the Supreme Court in the affirmative action case where they say

1:17.0

universities may no longer use race-based admissions? Does this surprise you?

1:22.8

Well, the the top line vote is six three that universities can't use race, but in many regards,

1:29.3

this is not as broad as it could have been. I think if I'm a university administrator I'm

1:33.8

breathing a cyberleaf today because the court says no race at all and they didn't say that. They

1:39.8

said you can't do race the way Harvard was using race and it still left open the possibility that

1:44.3

other types of racial preferences can still be used. So this is, you know, it's not the worst

1:49.6

case scenario. It's not the best case scenario as usual with the Chief Justice. It's something in the

1:53.2

middle. What was Harvard doing specifically that they struck down? Well, they were treating Asian

2:03.3

students substantially worse than they were treating other students. If you look at the numbers

2:06.8

it's pretty blatant. You know, if you look at an SAT score for an Asian American applicant

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