Strict Scrutiny The End of Affirmative Action
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Jun 29, 2023 The Supreme Court’s ruling striking down race-conscious admissions at Harvard and UNC sparks a lively breakdown of the opinions, sharp dissents, and the justices’ clashes over history, equality, and the 14th Amendment. The discussion also takes aim at Justice Thomas’s concurrence and considers what the decision could mean for universities and civil rights.
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
The Six to Three Affirmative Action Decision in the Harvard and UNC Cases
02:44 • 5min
The Court's Role in Brown v. Board of Education
07:27 • 5min
The Court's Role in the 14th Amendment
12:26 • 4min
The Constitution and the Courts
16:51 • 2min
The Court's Opposition to Race Based Admissions
18:23 • 6min
The Importance of Race in Admissions
24:09 • 2min
The Tory Court's Decision to Overrule Affirmative Action
26:00 • 5min
Justice Sotomayor's Descended
30:39 • 2min
Let's Eat Cake Obliviousness
32:21 • 6min
The Groundwork for Reviving a Remedial Justification for Affirmative Action
38:14 • 3min
The Cross Chatter Between Justice Thomas and Justice Sotomayor
41:00 • 6min
The Freedmen's Bureau Is Race Neutral
46:56 • 3min
The Irony of Justice Thomas' Denouncing Affirmative Action
49:26 • 5min
Elena Kagan Applause for the Court's Decision on Race in Military Academies
54:17 • 2min
The Battle for Civil Rights
56:34 • 2min
The Equal Protection Clause in the Voting Rights Act
58:25 • 6min