It's Friday, June 30, 2023. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis

of news and events from a Christian world view. We knew the yesterday was going to be a

very big day at the Supreme Court of the United States. We now know that today will be

a very big day as well. But yesterday, the most controversial decision of the court's

term was handed down on a case having to do with college admissions and affirmative action.

Everyone knew it was going to be a big case. It turned out that it was a huge decision,

handed out six three, by the way, dividing the conservative and the more liberal justices

on the Supreme Court. But we also see here a Fisher in the United States, a world view

clash, as well as a policy clash that does indeed demand a much closer look. The two universities

at the center of this combined case were Harvard University, which is the nation's oldest

private university. And the University of North Carolina, considered by some claims at least

the oldest public institution of higher education in the United States. You put the two of them

together, it pretty much covers the waterfront. And in this case, the plaintiff bringing the challenge

to the admissions policies was an organization known as Students for Fair Admissions. And we're

going to be looking at how the case came about. We're going to be looking most importantly about

what we see now in the aftermath of the decision handed down. First of all, what was the decision?

The decision was basically the culmination of a very long effort undertaken by the Supreme Court

to clarify what wasn't was not what is it is not constitutional when it comes to what is often

referred to as affirmative action. So let's just step back and ask ourselves what is affirmative action.

Going back to the period just after the midpoint of the 20th century, there wasn't understanding

that African-American black citizens in the United States have been unfairly discriminated against

in employment, real estate, many areas of the law, and indeed in college and university admissions.

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