Special Episode: Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Nathan weigh in on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which bans the consideration of race as a specific factor in college admissions. The guys discuss what this might mean for future law school applicants. Read the Supreme Court’s opinion here.

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0:00.0	Hey producer Eric here this is a special episode that the guys just recorded for the Demon Daily podcast about the news that just came out of the Supreme Court
0:08.4	This published yesterday on the Demon Daily channel, but we wanted to share it here as well
0:13.2	There will still be a regular episode of Thinking Elseat on Monday.
0:17.0	Hey there, welcome to Elsad Demon Daily. I'm Ben Olson, that's Nathan Fox. We're the
0:28.3	founders of Elsad Demon.com and our weekly podcast thinking Elsat.
0:31.8	Today we have a special episode on the recent Supreme Court decision,
0:36.3	Students for Fair Admissions versus Harvard.
0:39.7	This just came out today.
0:41.0	This is Thursday, June 29th. We are not legal experts, but we're curious
0:47.8	about how this is going to affect our students and those applying to law school. What effect will this decision have for them?
0:54.8	I don't know that we have answers, do we, Nate?
0:57.4	Well, what happened, right?
0:59.2	The cases were decided in favor of the plaintiff.
1:03.0	Plaintiff was a nonprofit on behalf of Asian American students who said
1:10.8	they had been discriminated against.
1:12.3	I think it was Asian American students,
1:14.1	but I'm not sure, but anyways, it's this nonprofit
1:16.4	who is saying, hey, in separate suits,
1:19.8	University of North Carolina and Harvard College, you guys are violating these people's rights.
1:28.1	How are you violating their rights?
1:29.5	Well, there's an equal protection law, equal protection clause of the Constitution of the United States
1:34.9	that says that the government can't deny any, that everybody needs equal protection under the laws.
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