From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Kendall Seasmeyer, your host.

On Thursday, June 29th, in the cases of students for fair admissions versus president and fellows of Harvard College, and

students for fair admissions versus University of North Carolina, the Supreme Court, and a six to

three decision overturned affirmative action in higher education, restricting university's

ability to fully address systemic racial inequalities that persist in higher education.

Affirmative action in higher education has been in place since the 1960s.

This overturn is the latest in the Supreme Court's move to break with decades of precedent

and undo long-held civil rights.

Joining us now to unpack the decision is Reneke Moore, director of the ECLU's Racial

Justice Program.

Rennika, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

So I want to start off with the news, which is the decision.

We were all in a flurry this morning reading it. What was the opinion of the court on these cases? Sure. So what the majority

opinion seems to do is really move the goalpost in terms of how affirmative action is used by colleges

and universities. And so what we had, starting from Baki, almost 50 years of precedent,

the court had established repeatedly that diversity was a compelling interest for colleges and universities

to achieve, recognizing the benefits of diversity to achieve various academic goals and in other

ways in just ensuring that our democracy reflects the entirety of our populace. What the court decided is that Harvard and

UNC's affirmative action policies were unconstitutional. It sort of frames this as it's not really

changing the standard in this following precedent, but it really is with this decision, articulating

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