#shorts On 7/7/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Given the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week on affirmative action, I’m interested if the President has a stance on whether Congress should take action to ban legacy preferences in higher education admissions.

KJP: I don’t have anything further to — to add on the President’s position on what you just laid out … when you think about affirmative action, it had been a constitutional kind — kind of constitutional right for decades and had been held up by Republicans and Democrats. And so it was another kind of — another act by the Supreme Court that was unprecedented … One of the things that the President has taken very seriously is to make sure that we have federal judges that are diverse, that represent the country. We have — we have been able to not just nominate but get through about 136 judges, again, who are diverse. And he had made — he has made that one of his top priorities as we — as we look at what’s going on with this — the Supreme Court currently.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/f464SuqVQkA
Q: ban college legacy preferences? A: affirmative action constitutional right for decades