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A rare battle at the Supreme Court; plus, Asian Americans and affirmative action

A rare battle at the Supreme Court; plus, Asian Americans and affirmative action

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Years before their appointments to the highest court in the land,
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas both
walked the hallowed halls of Yale Law School as beneficiaries of
affirmative action policies. After handing down the ruling on
affirmative action, both justices stood to deliver their different
opinions about affirmative action: Sotomayor in support, Thomas
against.

To discuss this moment and how two people can have the same
experience and land at drastically different conclusions, host
Brittany Luse is joined by Ron Elving, Senior Editor and
correspondent on NPR's Washington desk, and Leah Wright Rigeur,
professor of history at Johns Hopkins University.

Then, Brittany invites Janelle Wong, University of Maryland
professor and political scientist, to unpack the various public
faces of the efforts to end affirmative action - and how the myth
of the model minority shifted the conversation.

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