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
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a student who is trying to explain who they are? i think the supreme court, you can try to read the courts decision more narrowly to say they just don t want admission officer to consider somebody s race as race itself, but, to the extent that you can tell a whole contextual story about the role of what recent someone s life and the way that the individual that they are because of race and their experience of it that is okay. and so if you focus on that, which i think that many admissions officers in university officials will do, just a subtle meyer certainly called it putting lipstick on a pig, but there is a version of this that actually is what schools were doing all along, taking the context into account rather than thinking of race as a check box. debra, i want to go back to
isn t that what affirmative action was doing anyway to take into account the role that race might have played in a story of a student who is trying to explain who they are? i think the supreme court, you can try to read the courts decision more narrowly to say they just don t want admission officer to consider somebody s race as race itself, but, to the extent that you can tell a whole contextual story about the role of what recent someone s life and the way that the individual that they are because of race and their experience of it that is okay. and so if you focus on that, which i think that many admissions officers in