Supreme Court guts affirmative action in college admissions

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🗓️ 30 June 2023

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The Supreme Court overturned the long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education by saying it’s unlawful for colleges and universities to take race into consideration as a specific factor for admissions. CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic was in the courtroom when the opinions were read. She tells AC360 what the mood was like among the justices and if there was any tension between them. Plus, the U.S. Coast Guard says “presumed human remains” were found with the debris and evidence that was recovered from the sea floor where the wreckage of the Titan submersible was found. CNN Correspondent Paula Newton joins AC360 to give an update on how much of the sub has been recovered and what’s next with the investigation.

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0:00.0	The ruling is seismic, now come the aftershocks.
0:05.5	John Berman here in Ferranderson.
0:07.3	Tonight, what happens now that the Supreme Court has gutted affirmative action in a decision
0:11.6	that could profoundly change college admissions and more broadly reshape life for millions
0:16.6	in this country.
0:17.6	Also, what we are learning about the arrest in the Washington neighborhood where the Obama's
0:22.3	live of a heavily armed man with materials to make a Molotov cocktail who is also wanted
0:28.0	in connection with January 6th, plus what we are learning about a new cooperating witness
0:32.3	in the January 6th probe of the former president and why he could be in a position to now say
0:38.1	a lot.
0:39.3	First, the Supreme Court's history-making decision today dismantling a pillar of affirmative
0:44.7	action, specifically college admissions.
0:47.2	In it, the court ruled by a 6-to-3 margin that race-conscious policies at Harvard and
0:51.9	the University of North Carolina violate the 14th Amendment.
0:55.8	In his majority opinion, the chief justice rights at the program's quote, unavoidably
1:00.2	employ race in a negative manner involve racial stereotyping and lack meaningful endpoints.
1:06.1	Those admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the equal protection
1:10.7	clause.
1:12.0	Justice Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Thomas wrote separate concurrences.
1:15.7	Justice Sotomayor wrote a blistering dissent and Justice Kataji Brown Jackson who recused
1:20.6	herself from the Harvard case because of ties to the school wrote this in dissent on North
1:25.1	Carolina.
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