The Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action

<p>On Thursday, the Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent by striking down affirmative action and declaring that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful.</p><p>Adam Liptak, who covers the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times, explains the ruling, and what it means for American society.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/adam-liptak">Adam Liptak</a>, who covers the court for The New York Times.</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/supreme-court-admissions-affirmative-action-harvard-unc.html">The Supreme Court’s vote to reject affirmative action programs</a> was 6 to 3, with the liberal justices in dissent.</li><li>In 2016, in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/fisher-v-university-of-texas-austin.html">its last major case on affirmative action</a> in higher education, the Supreme Court upheld an aspect of an idiosyncratic admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.</p>