Strict Scrutiny

The End of Affirmative Action

Jun 29, 2023

01:02:35

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The Role of History in Legal Contexts

01:21

Introduction

3min

The Six to Three Affirmative Action Decision in the Harvard and UNC Cases

5min

The Court's Role in Brown v. Board of Education

5min

The Court's Role in the 14th Amendment

4min

The Constitution and the Courts

2min

The Court's Opposition to Race Based Admissions

6min

The Importance of Race in Admissions

2min

The Tory Court's Decision to Overrule Affirmative Action

5min

Justice Sotomayor's Descended

2min

10.

Let's Eat Cake Obliviousness

6min

11.

The Groundwork for Reviving a Remedial Justification for Affirmative Action

3min

12.

The Cross Chatter Between Justice Thomas and Justice Sotomayor

6min

13.

The Freedmen's Bureau Is Race Neutral

3min

14.

The Irony of Justice Thomas' Denouncing Affirmative Action

5min

15.

Elena Kagan Applause for the Court's Decision on Race in Military Academies

2min

16.

The Battle for Civil Rights

2min

17.

The Equal Protection Clause in the Voting Rights Act

6min

Today the Supreme Court delivered its opinion in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, declaring admissions programs that consider race to be in violation of the 14th Amendment. Melissa, Kate, and Leah break down the Chief Justice's opinion, Justice Thomas's galling concurrence, and the brilliant dissents by Justice Jackson and Justice Sotomayor.

Listen to our recap of the hours and hours of oral arguments in these cases: "Affirmative Action Reaction"
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