The End of Affirmative Action
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🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. Thank you to our Slate Plus members for making this episode available to all listeners. The full version of this episode is now exclusively available to our Slate Plus members. If you want to have access to bonus content like this, go to slate.com/amicusplus to become a member.
In an emergency episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern to analyze SCOTUS’ decision to wipe out affirmative action in college admissions. They find Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion has some curious carve-outs that will keep lawyers busy, and college admissions tutors and applicants… baffled.Â
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| 0:48.6 | Hi and welcome back to amicus. This is slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the US Supreme Court |
| 0:55.3 | This emergency episode comes to you as part of opinion polusa |
| 0:59.9 | You can find all of our Supreme Court end of term coverage at slate.com slash opinion polusa |
| 1:06.6 | We're offering this emergency episode to all of our listeners and we are thanking truly from the bottom of our hearts |
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| 1:20.1 | Hey, listen for the folks who've been talking about the newly moderate 333 courts |
| 1:25.3 | In a series of important race cases over the last few weeks |
| 1:29.5 | Today on Thursday the Supreme Court ruled with all six Republican appointed justices in the majority that race conscious |
| 1:36.8 | admission programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina |
| 1:41.0 | Violate the 14th amendments equal protection clause thereby |
| 1:44.8 | Ending race-based affirmative action and college admissions for both public and private universities |
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| 1:55.4 | 237 pages of opinions including the majority opinion by chief justice John Roberts that I guess he was just born to right |
| 2:05.0 | advocating for color blindness and applying the 14th amendment and also as he has long insisted elsewhere |
| 2:11.9 | demanding that quote eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it and quote but |
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