UNC and Harvard argue that they should be able to put their fingers on the scale in terms of race. They also say, listen, the constitutional issue is about the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause which was a post-Civil War amendment meant to protect black people. "The likely outcome is that I think this is a court that is hostile to what it views as race discrimination," says John Avlon.
The last Supreme Court term was a blockbuster. The justices made a number of landmark rulings, including in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
The new term could be just as testing, with a series of deeply divisive cases on the docket.
Guest: Adam Liptak, a correspondent covering the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times.
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