affirmativeaction

In a landmark ruling last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and banned the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

The decision eliminated the most powerful tool for ensuring diversity on America’s college campuses and forced college admission officers and high school seniors to figure out what the college admissions process should look like when race cannot be taken into account.

Jessica Cheung, a producer on “The Daily,” explains how, over the past year, both students and college officials have tried to navigate the new rules.

Guest: Jessica Cheung, a producer on “The Daily” for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• The first high-school seniors to apply to college since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision have had to sort through a morass of conflicting guidance.
• From June: The Supreme Court rejected affirmative action programs at Harvard and U.N.C.

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the second Black justice to sit on the court after Thurgood Marshall, has spent years opposing affirmative action. When the high court struck down the policy last month, Justice Thomas was one of the most influential figures behind the ruling.

Abbie VanSickle, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, explains the impact affirmative action has had on Justice Thomas’s life and how he helped to bring about its demise.

Guest: Abbie VanSickle, a Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• A look at Justice Thomas’s path to the Supreme Court.
• Here’s what the justices have said in the past about affirmative action.

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Two weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, declaring that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful.

Today, three people whose lives were changed by affirmative action discuss the complicated feelings they have about the policy.

Guest: Sabrina Tavernise, a co-host of The Daily.

Background reading: 

• For many of the Black, Hispanic and Native Americans whose lives were shaped by affirmative action, the moment has prompted a personal reckoning with its legacy.
• In earlier decisions, the court had endorsed taking account of race as one factor among many to promote educational diversity.

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It was a big week for the Supreme Court. Among other far-reaching decisions, the justices stuck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and ruled race-conscious admissions programs unconstitutional. We’ll get into the ways these decisions might be felt throughout the economy and look at the likely next shoe to drop. Later, we’ll play a Fourth of July-themed game of This or That, complete with pyrotechnics!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “Ending Affirmative Action May Be Just the Beginning” from Politico

• • “Supreme Court will decide whether domestic abusers can have guns” from Politico

• • “Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College” from the U.S. Supreme Court

• • “Military Academies Exempt From Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling” from The Wall Street Journal

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Charging Trump for Jan 6 just got meaningfully harder after a Supreme Court ruling that has nothing to do with storming the Capitol. Plus, Rudy was Queen for a Day, John Eastman loses in a big way, and the end of affirmative action in higher ed. Ben Wittes is back with Charlie Sykes for The Trump Trials.

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Author, columnist, and documentarian Shelby Steele has been a leading scholar on race in the nation for decades. A strong advocate for the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Steele promotes individual liberty and freedom. However, modern racial movements and policies, he says, have done more harm than good for the cause of equality. Increasing dependence on the government has undermined the cause of liberty. Steele, along with his son Eli, have recently released a new documentary, “What Killed Michael Brown?”, an investigation into the 2014 Ferguson, Missouri shooting, just as George Floyd’s death rocked the nation. The film has been labeled as controversial in some unexpected ways. Shelby joined the show today to share the full story, as well as discuss the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and organization, and the reason President Trump and his supporters are so often labeled as racist. 

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a new poll finds that a majority of Americans think our country is systemically racist. They’re wrong, of course. Also Five Headlines including the continued blood bath in Chicago and the Left’s latest discovery that BMI — the body mass index — is actually racist. And in our Daily Cancellation, I will be canceling the Trump campaign. I’ll explain why.

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