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    Supreme Court appears poised to do away with affirmative action

    enNovember 25, 2022

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    Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, joined "Court Watch" with reaction to the Supreme Court's oral arguments weighing affirmative action policies at Harvard and UNC. He discussed what a ruling reversing affirmative action could mean for secondary education as well as the military. 

     

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