The Architect

More Perfect

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🗓️ 7 December 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On this episode, we revisit Edward Blum, a self-described “legal entrepreneur” and former stockbroker who has become something of a Supreme Court matchmaker: he takes an issue, finds the perfect plaintiff, matches them with lawyers, and helps the case work its way to the highest court in the land. His target: laws that differentiate between people based on race — including ones that empower minorities. More Perfect profiled Edward Blum in season one of the show. We catch up with him to hear about his latest effort to end affirmative action at Harvard.

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0:00.0	Leadership support for more perfect is provided by the Joyce Foundation.
0:13.0	The Honourable, the Chief Justice and the Associates,
0:16.0	the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
0:20.0	Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
0:23.0	All persons having business before the Honourable,
0:26.0	the Supreme Court of the United States,
0:28.0	it punish the drawn heir and give the rich a, oh, yeah.
0:31.0	All the court is now sitting.
0:33.0	Oh, yeah, God save the United States in this Honourable Court.
0:40.0	This is more perfect, I'm Chad Abumrod.
0:42.0	So, last season, we profiled a guy named Edward Bloom.
0:46.0	This was a guy who, according to his critics,
0:51.0	had almost single-handedly rolled back decades of civil rights law.
0:56.0	Basically, by himself, wasn't a lawyer, wasn't a politician,
0:59.0	but somehow he'd sort of found this way to play the courts,
1:04.0	to cook up just the right case, find just the right plaintiff,
1:08.0	to target voting rights, affirmative action,
1:10.0	all kinds of different laws that take race into account.
1:14.0	It seemed to us at the time that he was sort of this hidden architect,
1:17.0	not too much was known about him.
1:20.0	In fact, at the time that we did the story,
1:22.0	there was a big case of his targeting affirmative action
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