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Hey listen for the folks who've been talking about the newly moderate 333 courts in a series of important race cases over the last few weeks.

Today on Thursday the Supreme Court ruled that all the members are able to make a lot of money to the court to make a lot of money.

Today on Thursday the Supreme Court ruled with all six Republican appointed justices in the majority that race conscious admission programs at Harvard and University of North Carolina, violate the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause thereby ending race based affirmative action in college admissions for both public and private universities.

Now we are bringing you today's emergency podcast to work through to be sure 237 pages of opinions including the majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts that I guess he was just born to right advocating for color blindness and applying the 14th Amendment and also as he has long insisted elsewhere.

Demanding that quote eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it and quote but Mark Joseph Stern my trusty co pilot who is reading these opinions as fast as he can has some caveats that may or may not soften the Chief Justice's otherwise thunderous and Mark's words majority holding so Mark welcome back thank you I know you're still wiping the sweat off your brow from reading but.

Not unexpected nevertheless a pretty grim day yeah I can't say I'm happy to be here even though it's always great to be in your presence dolly this is a this is a bad one I mean this is a really big blow to efforts to achieve racial justice in this country not only because the court has effectively shut down affirmative action as we know it and as it has been practiced for more than 50 years.

So I think it's a really good question to be honest with the courts blessing but because of course the downstream consequences of that decision will be atrocious and will unfortunately dramatically reduce the number of diverse and under represented minorities in the pipeline to all parts of American life right to business to medicine to science technology entertainment.

So I think that is a guarantee that white people who always take their racial privilege for granted continue to get to do that to get a leg up through legacy admissions through arcane sports practices through just being the kind of white person admissions officers want to have in class whereas under represented racial minorities are going to be I think looked at in some cases with an especially

scared of lawsuits after this decision and that means again that not only will universities be less diverse but that all of the ways that universities serve as a springboard to public life to a thriving career to public service in this country all of that is going to be affected and hampered by this decision I think this is a really devastating day for the country.

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