A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. There has to be some discrimination here. There has to be something against Asian Americans specifically. This case is going to be something more than just about admissions. The notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating for a number of areas of the law. An
not only that, he s been criminally indicted twice so far, he could face multiple trials in between campaign stops during primary season next year. essentially, on top of all of that, he appears to remain in control of the narrative and the eject cherie of this race. take for example the ways that those have responded to the criminal indictment last month, and how those responsive has a vault in the weeks since. have a promissory quickly made a pledge to pardon trump. tim scott said that the indictment is, quote, a serious case, but with serious allegations. at the same time, he condemned president biden and the justice department, alleging that they were targeting and hunting republicans. more interesting is how the talking points of a vote for trump s own former vice president, mike pence. shortly after the public learned about the indictment, pence said that he was, quote, deeply troubled but that no one is above the law. then, after the indictment was unsealed, he told cn
politicsnation. today from essence festival in new orleans. tonight s lead, justice not served. less than a week after the nation marked the first anniversary of roe s reversal, our conservative majority supreme court handed down a series of regressive decisions. collectively ruling against young and vulnerable people in a diversifying nation. on affirmative action, decades of transformative tools for underrepresented, specifically black kids seeking a higher education. the court left them to their own devices. on president biden s plan to apply a modest relief to suffering student borrowers, the court ruled that the administration had overstepped its bounds. and on lgbtq rights, the court insisted that the right to deny business on religious grounds can be protected as freedom of speech. president biden yesterday after days of responding to these judicial attacks on social progress, laid the blame for this week s decision at the feet of conservative lawmakers and the justice
carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. you were a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with. can you feel the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered them a
people as the central players shush, don t tell them. well, cats out of the bag. it s happening. i think it happened today. thank you for the book plug, as well. thank you my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the year was 1990. republican incumbent north carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election. so helms cold in the political consultants, who helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back. and this is what they came up with. this ad. you needed that job. you are the best qualified. but they had to give it to a minority tick is of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt says he supports ted kennedy s racial quota law but makes the color of your skin more important than your qualifications. you ll vote on this issue next tuesday. for racial quotas, i began. it against racial quotas, jesse helms. that added, with