Why the Supreme Court Might End Affirmative Action

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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For decades, many universities have used race as a factor when deciding which students to admit. In the past, the Supreme Court has backed that practice, called affirmative action, in the interest of creating a diverse student body. This week, however, the majority-conservative court is considering a case that may change affirmative action forever. Guest: Adam Liptak, a correspondent covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tevernice and this is the Daily.
0:08.0	For decades, many universities have used race as a factor when deciding which students
0:12.6	to admit.
0:14.1	But a landmark case argued this week in front of the Supreme Court, maybe about to change
0:18.7	that.
0:20.0	Today, I talked to my colleague Adam Lipteck about what may well be the end of affirmative
0:27.2	action.
0:31.7	It's Thursday, November 3rd.
0:38.8	So Adam, this is another really big term for the Supreme Court.
0:43.7	And when I talked to you a few weeks ago, you said that the biggest case of this term
0:48.9	was one about affirmative action.
0:51.0	And that it would be a blockbuster.
0:53.1	Yeah, just as the decision in June, overturning the Constitutional right to abortion, was
1:00.1	huge.
1:01.1	A case argued on Monday, on challenges to race conscious admissions programs in higher
1:09.1	education may well reshape American life.
1:12.6	Adam, give me the basics of the case.
1:15.0	What's it about?
1:16.0	Well, we actually have two cases.
1:17.5	One against the University of North Carolina and one against Harvard.
1:21.7	But they share basic themes and they're both brought by the same plaintiff, which is
1:26.4	an organization called Students for Fair Admissions, run by a conservative legal activist Edward
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