It's Friday June 30th. I'm Trayville Anderson.

And I'm Priyanka Eribindi and this is what a day where we are grieving the end of Pride Month.

Yes, largely because it means that we have to deal with straight people again.

Yeah, I do not claim any of them. They're not my people. I'm sorry. Don't know her.

On today's show, the Supreme Court expanded protections for workers' religious accommodations.

Plus, Tick Tock is funding the lawsuit in Montana against the company's statewide ban.

But first, yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action programs

at the University of North Carolina and at Harvard.

The court ruled that race-based affirmative action programs violate the Constitution's equal protection clause

and that American colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration for admissions,

upending a long-standing precedent designed to help disadvantaged black and Latino students seeking higher education.

Two quick things on this. I find it very rich that one of the men leading the charge here is a man who benefited from affirmative action.

But now, seemingly believes it is not necessary, I'm not saying his name.

And then two, make sure you read Justice Katangi Brown Jackson's dissent because it is wonderful and amazing.

Yeah, it really is. Everything and more. We'll get into that very shortly.

But this landmark decision will almost certainly result in less diverse student bodies at selective universities.

It's predicted that this will lead to a significant drop in the enrollment of black and Latino students at these institutions

and that their student bodies will become wider and more Asian as a result.

To dig into this decision, its consequences and how this in some ways is just the start.

I spoke earlier with Jay Willis. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Balls and Strikes, a website covering the Supreme Court through a progressive lens.

I started by asking him to recap the cases in this ruling and the arguments that were made before the court earlier this year.

The case really is two consolidated cases about the affirmative action programs in use at Harvard and at the University of North Carolina.

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