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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Biden Slams Supreme Court Ruling Against Race-Based Affirmative Action [Watch (HLS stream): Biden Slams Supreme Court Ruling Against Race-Based Affirmative Action](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/eb8LXIhN.m3u8) (3:26)  _Published 2023-06-29. The Supreme Court of the United States just limited the ability of universities to consider an applicant’s race and ethnicity in admissions. The cases—Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina—struck a blow to race-conscious affirmative action programs that have been crucial in providing talented students of color access to highly selective public and private institutions._ --- Jul 28, 2023 5:09 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down Challenge to Abortion Drug Mifepristone](/video/Dzk4IIPq/) ### Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down Challenge to Abortion Drug Mifepristone [Biden Offers New Student Debt Relief Plan After Supreme Court Rebuke](/video/8fxKAJkI/) ### Biden Offers New Student Debt Relief Plan After Supreme Court Rebuke [Students Protest as Supreme Court Weighs Biden Student Loan Plan](/video/d6hsRtzh/) ### Students Protest as Supreme Court Weighs Biden Student Loan Plan --- ## Transcript Today, the court once again, walked away from Decades of precedent and make as a descent is made clear to the Saint States, decision, quote package of precedent and momentous progress. And the quote, I agree with that statement from The Descendants are from The Descent. The court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions. My strong strongly disagree with the Court's decision. Many people wrongly believed that affirmative action allows unqualified students unqualified students to be admitted. He had to qualify students. This is not, this is not how College admissions work. Rather colleges set out standards for the mission and every student every student has to meet those standards then. And only, then that's the first meeting the qualifications required, by the school to college, for the other factors in addition to their grades such as race. I've always believed. One of the greatest strengths of America you tired of hearing me. Say it is our diversity. But I believe that if you have any doubt about this, just look at the United States military. The finest fighting force in the history of the world. It's been a model of diversity. And is not only been Army donation, better stronger, but safer. I believe the same is true for schools. I've always believed that the promise of America is big enough for everyone to succeed and that every generation Americans we have benefited by opening the doors of opportunity, just a little bit wider to include those when I left behind. I believe our colleges are stronger. When they are racially diverse. Our nation is stronger because we use will be because we are tapping into the full range of talents Nation. We cannot let this decision be the last word. One of them. We cannot let this decision be the last word. All the court can render a decision. It cannot change what America stands for. America's an idea, an idea unique in the world. My dear, hope and opportunity of possibilities. I'm giving everyone a fair shot. I'm leaving no one behind it. Never fully lived up to it, but we've never walked away from it either. We will not walk away from it. Now, we should never allow the country to walk away from the dream upon which it was found that opportunity is for everyone. Not just a few, we need A New Path forward, a path consistent with the law that protects diversity, and expands opportunity, and should not have been as should not have been in their commitment to ensure student bodies of diverse backgrounds and experiences that reflect all of America. When I proposed consideration is a newsstand or colleges take into account, the adversity. As soon as overcome When selecting among qualified applicants, let's be clear to standard. This is what's true under the earlier standard students, first have to be qualified applicants because the truth is, we all know it discrimination still exists in America discrimination still exists in America discrimination still exists in America. Today's decision does not change that. 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