Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in college admissions
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Supreme Court throws out 40 years of legal precedent. |
| 0:06.9 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:09.7 | The Justices reject race-based affirmative action in college admissions. |
| 0:13.5 | We're talking to a member of the student admissions organization that sued the schools. |
| 0:17.5 | Plus, one of the attorneys who argued in support of affirmative action before the court. |
| 0:22.6 | Then, documents shared exclusively with CNN show a Russian general, whose whereabouts |
| 0:28.2 | is currently unknown was a secret VIP member of the Wagner mercenary group. |
| 0:33.6 | Plus, CNN's Aaron Burnett joins us live from Kiev, where she just sat down with former |
| 0:38.2 | Vice President Mike Pence during his surprise trip to Ukraine's capital. |
| 0:42.8 | And a jury verdict in one of the worst school shootings in American history. |
| 0:46.9 | The Parkland School Resource Officer who did not enter the building is found not guilty. |
| 0:56.5 | And welcome to the lead. |
| 0:57.5 | I'm Addy Philip. |
| 0:58.5 | Jake Tapper is off today. |
| 0:59.5 | We begin with our law and justice league. |
| 1:02.8 | College admissions program in America will no longer look the same. |
| 1:07.3 | Protesters gathered outside of the U.S. Supreme Court today after its landmark decision, |
| 1:11.5 | saying that colleges can no longer take race into consideration as an expressed factor |
| 1:16.8 | in admissions. |
| 1:18.2 | Now this overturns longstanding precedent that has benefited black and Latino students |
| 1:22.6 | in higher education. |
| 1:24.3 | Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the conservative majority, saying the admissions |
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