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A major decision in the United States Supreme Court today.

In a six-three ruling, in a case involving affirmative action as a basis for admission to universities,

was struck down.

The universities who were using affirmative action were arguing that that is a basis, a legitimate basis, to achieve diversity in their student body.

The argument against was that we don't get to choose our race, so if a white or Asian student applies and has better grades than a minority student,

even though Asians are also a minority, they don't get to count as a minority here because they just do too well in school.

And minority is supposed to mean doesn't do well in school, at least for the sake of universities.

So the ruling six-three, striking that down, is a ruling that you can't engage in this sort of racism.

We'll talk about that ruling, what it means coming up in the next segment with Professor Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law.

You may have seen him interviewed on TV stations across the country earlier today.

He's a renowned expert on the rulings of the Supreme Court.

It's what he follows and teaches all day every day.

But let me, before we get to that discussion, let's talk about why that's important, because we talked to him this morning.

We're going to have another conversation with him now that we've had a chance to dig into the rulings and he has two.

About why it is that universities are so important to our lives today, because they weren't always.

You know, I think we have, was it 10 presidents who didn't get a university degree, the last of which was Harry Truman?

Rick Walker, the governor of Wisconsin at the time who ran in 16, would have been the first president in quite some time.

Where he elected, which of course he wasn't, to lack a university degree.

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