at harvard a black plicatae cream of the crop had a 56% chance while whites and asians with the same qualifications had a 15%. a black applicant had a higher chance to get in than a top asian or white student t supreme court ruled 6-3 that s unconstitutional racial discrimination probed by the equal protection clause t14th amendment. chief justice john roberts who authored the majority says this, quote. eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it. the guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. roberts is saying, basically, you can t unfairly discriminate against whites in order to help blacks. all discrimination s wrong. harvard university made race a factor in every single step of of the application process, from the second they accepted the application to the second they accepted or rejected it, race was used in their decisions. the court says harvard s ad
might see? here is what we know. inside the courtroom our producer is behind me and we have two boxes. we should be getting multiple opinions today. 6 or 7 left depending how you count them. some are coupled up together. now we wait. it is the last of the term. the end of the term. we think they may add tomorrow to be the final day. we have affirmative action in higher ed., can you use race in considering applicants? a huge battle waged for decades. you have the student loan debt relief program. did the biden administration go too far? do they have the power to wipe out billion else in loans without congress or another body being involved? a couple of religious liberty cases. the web designer out of colorado. does she have to make web designs for everyone? we have the postal worker when he joined the postal service they didn t have sunday delivery. he told them it is a day of sabbath and can t work it. now we re just let s see what we have. the first opinion. not one of t
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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