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elite students, called legacy. a suit was filed in the area that want to ban this practice for basically favoritism for the children of harvard alumni. a counteroffensive measure came out of the fact that the conservative supreme court has been picking and choosing where to overturn precedent, where to play policy king, something conservatives claimed they wouldn t do if they got on the court and then they did, including gutting a very recent upheld precedent for affirmative action. reporter: a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court. striking down affirmative action and reshaping admissions. the high court saying race cannot be a factor in achieving diversity, overturning cases that go back 45 years. the supreme court has done america a disservice. reporter: this is a sea
change. this is the first time we ve seen anything like this. it may seem like a long time ago but that was just last month. conservatives basically taking aim at only one particular program that actually supports diversity and diversifying these institutions which as a factual matter historically have had rules against letting in women, jews, minorities. and there are structural ways that women have tried to gain. and family that are established and affluent enough to have multiple generations of harvard alumni. take justice jackson who said that original decision was pro verse, a tragedy and last week
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