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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

A landmark day for the US Supreme Court and the United States as the justices

bar the use of racial preferences in college admissions with a six-judge majority in cases involving

Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the court, said that using race in admissions in

the way the schools did is a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment to

the Constitution. That, of course, is the amendment passed in the wake of the Civil War

that abolished slavery and established what we have always believed. I have believed was a color

blind constitution. We'll break down the opinions in the case and there are several and their

implications. My name is Paul Gigo on the editor of the editorial page of the journal and I'm here

with my colleagues Bill McGurne and Kim Strassel. We're absorbing the 237 pages of opinion.

It's a long one came out later this morning, but what we've been able to absorb is that it is

a clarion called by the court and the majority opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts

underscoring that the Constitution bars discrimination by race under all circumstances even as a

supposed remedy for past discrimination. Bill, why don't you tell us about the background of these

cases? You've written about them many times about the admissions practices of Harvard and UNC

and how they discriminated in particular against Asian America. Yeah, I mean, if you want to go back

all the way to beginning, it goes back to the Constitution and 14th Amendment and so forth.

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