what s interesting here is that the courts presenting arguments earlier this term to do away with this practice. several justices had suggested that this use of race in college admission decisions and run its course, but proponents of this practice say that it s really going to hurt the ability of institutions to make sure that they have a diverse student bodies. we re also waiting for yes, sorry. that s okay, go ahead. no, you. we re also waiting for the court s decision here in the student loan cases, these are two challenges to president biden s plan to cancel student loan debt for some 40 million americans. it seems like an in oral arguments was a majority of the justices that thought president biden didn t have the ability to wipe away this student loan debt without express authority from congress.
are not permitted under the u.s. constitution, and schools like harvard and unc which are involved in these cases before the supreme court must look at race as one of many factors when considering the applications of folks wanting to get into school and they can t weigh race in a mechanical way giving it the same weight every single time. they have to look at it in a flexible manner. so race is just one of many factors that go into the decision making process. they can look at race when they want to build their student bodies if they want to, if they want it to be a diverse student body. what would it mean if they can t consider race when they re building their student population? that s right. so if the supreme court decides to get rid of affirmative action, making it unconstitutional to practice, then schools will have to turn to what are called race neutral alternatives. these are different measures,
civil rights attorney in atlanta robert by tee owe. thank you for joining me. let s dive right into the affirmative action cases because there s two significant ones, and they re similar. one is for public universities, the other for private institutions. john carlo, what do you make of what we expect to come down? sure. the question in the case is whether schools can use racial preferences to racially balance their student bodies. it s simultaneously a civil rights act issue, equal protection issue. how the court decides those cases, there s a lot of options before it, but it looks like from oral argument that the supreme court is likely to say that universities can no longer use race to balance their student bodies. griff: right. and title vi is in play here, and the opponents of affirmative action say, basically, race is being overemphasized in these
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professionals, like law school, and engineering will be even greater. but i think so, i think what you will see in the short term, i assume that the supreme court is going to do away with affirmative action in i think in the short term you will see a significant hit to diversity. but and if schools and i think they do that are doing this now want to keep their student bodies diverse, they will have to just work a lot harder. and that is essentially what ucla did, what university of california did, spend a lot more money on recruitment, a lot more money trying to get kids to come once they were admitted, and the rest. and so, it was effective. but you can already see the schools, colleges, already starting to adapt. i do think some of the reasons why standardized tests are being fatal phased out has something to do with him anticipating this and trying to use ways i think that what these other kinds of proxies. but, in the short term, there is nothing that will take its plac