affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from the architect of the lawsuits, the schools were accused of giving substantial preferences to black and hispanic applicants while discriminating against asian students. what this lawsuit reveals is that personality
hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle, let s take a big deep breath because we have a lot to cover tonight, today the nation s highest court struck down race based affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from th
point to an example of a system, again a state system one that all taxpayers and community members pay into, right? see a massive drop in access from lower income communities and communities of color. they are worried that harvard will slide backwards now and start to look like what harvard used to look like. which was a lot wider, frankly. and so they will be pushing the administration, there have been closed-door meetings, for years now because this moment has been coming. they have been pushing on legacy admissions, this is why was he harvard and other schools move away from the s. a. t. naacp to get rid of standardized testing, there is going to be a lot of mishmash -ing and reinvention over the next couple of years, we will not fully understand what the impacts will look like for a couple of years time. it will take time. can i ask you what you think? you went to harvard while there may be the anxiety that schools could go backward to where they were, is there an opportunity tha
now because this moment has been coming. they have been pushing on legacy admissions, this is why was he harvard and other schools move away from the s.a.t. naacp to get rid of standardized testing, there is going to be a lot of mishmash-ing and reinvention over the next couple of years, we will not fully understand what the impacts will look like for a couple of years time. it will take time. can i ask you what you think? you went to harvard while there may be the anxiety that schools could go backward to where they were, is there an opportunity that they could move forward, to actually take on legacy admission, where people who aren t totally unqualified to go to the schools get to go because of major donors? or standardized test? i mentioned it before, i m a privileged person i have privileged kids and i am looking at spending thousands of dollars on s.a.t. prep because people are convinced that s what we have to do. suddenly, if those things are taken out of the system, could tha