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Fd. rules and laws. the "new york times" obtained an internal investigation that is investigating and suing colleges and universities over affirmative actions policies deemed to discriminate over white applicantapplicants. the u.s. supreme court ruled last year that affirmative action programs are permissible if colleges and universities are narrowly tailored without harming over applicants. they said the department does not confirm or deny the existence of any ongoing

Of the constitution and frankly it is wrong if light of our nations practices and traditions. >> shannon: as you know were waiting as theyre reading more opinions from the bench. justice kennedy now reading one from the bench and all eyes are on him and whether he will have any big announcement today. somebody that you know well from the supreme court, an advocate who is with the constitutional accountability center and they often file in these cases. i want to play a little bit what she had to ...

Problems with affirmative action in the past. hes voted to restrict affirmative action programs. but at the arguments, it was clear that he was a little nervous about being the justice who casts the vote to side with sort of the comments that were being made by justices alito and scalia that would really strike this down and end to the policy in whole. he was sort of looking for -- he kept asking about like whether or not we could remand the case back down to the trial court so we could get more...

Allowed to do it at all. >> and the history here, when theyve ruled before? >> the court has twice upheld affirmative action programs in the last 10, 15 years. most recently narrowing it in the same school, university of texas after that narrowing. so a lot of eyes on this. as for what justice scalia was asking, ive been mentioning him asking a question or responding to that brief, doesnt mean hes endorsing it, but everyone i accept im not the rower i used to be.. understands hes ruled against a...

>> floridians for school choice in the 90s created by bush. tell us about that program and how its impacted the system in your state. >> unfortunately the bush programs that were implemented here in the 90s have been detrimentally impactful to the students here in the state of florida in the most absurd and disgusting way. and i come from a practitioners backwa background. im a teacher by trade and got into policy after i had seen the impact of a number of policies governor bush passed here. eve...

>> you have to take him at his word. >> this is a context, im sure. david duke is a famous guy. steve skalise is not an idiot. im pointing all three of those things out. >> no one knows anything under misapprehension of what david duke was. it was, by all acounts, a bad sdgs to go to that conference by the standard of what hes trying to do in racist profile in the state at that point of time. perhaps he saw it was a risk worth taking. >> perhaps he saw the state rep repealing affirmative action ...

What hes trying to do and raise his profile in the state at that point of time. perhaps he saw it was a risk worth taking. >> perhaps he saw the state rep repealing affirmative action programs. stricter public housing guidelines. but those all become particularly the 1990s when the affirmative action wars really heat up. those become mainstream planks of republican party politics. >> you know, some of what he said, although a less extreme version of it, when you watch him, hes fighting over welf...

>> you have to take him at his word. >> this is a context, im sure. david duke is a famous guy. steve skalise is not an idiot. im pointing all three of those things out. >> no one knows anything under misapprehension of what david duke was. it was, by all acounts, a bad sdgs to go to that conference by the standard of what hes trying to do in racist profile in the state at that point of time. perhaps he saw it was a risk worth taking. >> perhaps he saw the state rep repealing affirmative action ...

Welcome back, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. a major case, a big decision a short time ago. the u.s. supreme court dealt another blow to affirmative action programs. the justices voted 6-2 to uphold the controversial michigan law that does away with racial consideration in college admissions. lets bring in our senior washington correspondent joe johns. this is essentially a road map for other states potentially to do the same. give us a background what happened. >> i think thats righ...

Action and that amendment was challenged here in the supreme court, and the challenger said that it rigs the political system that if somebody wants to have affirmative action they have to get a constitutional amendment passed to allow it again, whereas if somebody else wants some admission process like the legacy admissions, all they have to do is to go to school board or the college board, and that is going to rig the political system, and the court rejected that argument today, but it goes ou...