The Supreme Court is continuing its evisceration of historic progressive social policies by preparing to abolish affirmative action.

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases seeking to end affirmative action in higher education by banning race as a factor for admission. The right-wing super-majority of the court has strongly indicated that they will vote to overturn the key policy, using a series of complete distortions of US history.

Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News, Ben Becker, explains the racist attack on affirmative action and the fight against the far-right Supreme Court.

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