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Harvard Loses Affirmative Action Case

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The Supreme Court's Deference to the Military's Role in American Life

Gorsuch: The court has long had a great degree of deference to the way in which the military governs itself. He says alternative ways of achieving diversity that are not racial box checking work, wouldn't they also work for the military academies? But again, that wasn't part of the case, but I'm not a fan of that footnotes. Do you think this has ended the legal conversation over affirmative action? For a while, do you think we'll be revisiting this? We've talked about the Thomas Jefferson High School case of then having race neutral admissions policies with the purpose of having a racial effect by limiting the number of Asian students getting into a school.

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