The Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling.
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Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Affirmative action. On Thursday, the Supreme Court determined in a 6-3 decision that considering race in university admissions is unconstitutional. The ruling will reshape how the nation's most elite universities attempt to diversify their campuses, and also has the potential to impact the make-up of the nation's workforce.
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:01.2 | I am your host, Isaac Saul, and I hope you all had a great Fourth of July weekend. It was nice. |
| 1:06.8 | I got a few days off, a little break upstate with some family. |
| 1:11.4 | And a lot has happened since we were here on Thursday. |
| 1:16.2 | We had three very big Supreme Court case rulings that we are going to cover this week |
| 1:23.4 | unless something bigger comes up, which I think is going to be hard to do. |
| 1:28.0 | And today we are going to start with the affirmative action ruling that came down last week. |
| 1:34.6 | Before we jump in, though, we're going to start off with some of the quick hits we missed, and then today's quick hits. |
| 1:48.0 | Okay. quick hits. So some of the news we missed while we were away. |
| 1:50.4 | First of all, the Supreme Court struck down President Biden's student loan forgiveness |
| 1:54.6 | plan. |
| 1:55.4 | The Biden administration said it was pursuing a new plan to wipe out some student loan debt. |
| 2:01.3 | Number two, the Supreme Court also ruled that a web designer could deny wedding-related |
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