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I think if it comes out the way it did in the argument here, the state will say, the supreme court is going to say that states can do that. michigan plus seven other states have banned affirmative action, either by constitutional amendment or executive order or vote of a legislature. if the supreme court said michigan can do this, those bans will be safe in the other states as well. >> pete williams, we also mention they are going to hear a challenge to the epa authority to regulate greenhouse g...

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There. we can never use these things to add programs and resources that would actually help. >> i dont think thats necessarily true. and that is this. when im in the projects, every week, there are members of that community who are talking to the other members of the community and organizing within themselves to get the drug dealers out. and i will tell you this, joy, most of my drug conspiracy cases, if not all, are from the projects. >> well w, i mean the people, particularly, who are supporti...

The last major obstacle is the city government. bill: wow, senator john mccain talks about this. saying detroits woes are problems of applying social programs in the past. >> when we see the city of detroit, the largest bankruptcy in history, its a wasteland. basically the city of detroit is. what is the majority of the population in the city of detroit? and that is, who suffers the most? now in detroit, obviously we know the answer to that. so, do we have to continue and emphasize affirmative a...

Now in detroit? we know the answer to that. so do we have to continue and emphasize affirmative action programs? yes, without quotas. do we have to do a lot of things in america -- if you can salvage anything about this national debate isnt the word, national clash of ideas about the trayvon martin case, its that we still have a long way to go and i think the president very appropriately highlighted a lot of that yesterday as only a president of the united states can. >> did you think that trayv...

Against prop 8 this week. some of t they were forced to answer some of the biggest questions of our time. lets look at these decisions. yay on affirmative action. how do you define the court after this week? >> strategic. for the affirmative action case the court ruled seven to one. it can stand but they stood behind a more tight definition of what policies can move forward. ultimately its not looking all that positive for affirmative action programs when they go back to the lower courts given t...

Who was rejected from the university of texas. fisher has since graduated from louisiana state university. "outfront" tonight, the reverend jesse jackson. always good to talk to you. let me ask you this pointblank -- did the supreme court miss an opportunity today? >> yeah, to the extent that race remains a fact among us. thats a victory because they sought to eliminate it altogether. you know, there were white students that had lower grades than she had. they thought a focus on race was a vulne...

Whole. they used affirmative action as a plus factor in admitting the rest of the class which could be up to 25% of the incoming freshman class. what supreme court said its casting a very gymlet eye on the practice saying you have to be careful when you use affirmative action sending it back to the court of appeals to take another look at this. in other words, raising the bar for the university of texas to try to justice its affirmative action program. its a bit of a warning to other colleges na...

Vanderbilt or johns hopkins or harvey mudd college, any of those can continue to use their affirmative action programs with no interference from the courts. it is only public universities that might have to scale back and given that this is a 7-1 opinion and that they are not overruling any of their earlier cases i think this might be limited to schools like texas, that have their 10% program. but the court is making sure that courts will scrutinize affirmative action programs more carefully. i ...