the state supreme court. and yesterday, the tennessee three faced expulsion votes fo daring to demand action afte six more children and school staff were shot to death wit an assault rifle at th nashville elementary schoo last week. a political debacle that turne into a fire storm last night after the nearly all white republican super majority vote to expel the two black lawmakers, but not the white lawmaker both president biden and forme president obama spoke out afte the traumatic speeches by stat representatives justin jones and justin pearson today, vice president harris flew international to respon to the ongoing protests agains gun violence and the expulsion of the black representatives that is where we had planned t start tonight. and we will have much more o tennessee coming up. but just after 5 pm texas time a trump-appointed federal judg ruled to suspend the fda s approval of the abortion pil mifepristone, siding wit anti-abortion groups in a case that could end up
that turned into a fire stor last night, after the nearly all white republican super majority voted to expel the tw black lawmakers but not th white lawmaker, both president biden and former president obama spoke out after th dramatic speeches, by stat representatives, justin jones, and just in person today, vice president harris flew into nashville to respond to the ongoing protests agains gun violence and the expulsion of the black representatives that is where we had planned t start tonight. and we will have much more o tennessee coming up. but just after 5 pm texas time a trump-appointed federal judg ruled to suspend the fda s approval of the abortion pil mifepristone, siding wit anti-abortion groups in a case that could end up up and acces to medication abortion in al 50 states. that s right in all of 50 states, even in states where abortion is legal the ruling will not go int effect for seven days. and just in the last hour, the justice department filed notic that it wo
of diversityctor as the driving factor in upholding previously upholding e affirmative action. yeah, i think that one is one. ward to i m really looking forw, because i think we re going to get a great opportunity for the court to dismantleentle rac preferences in education and finally put this issue to rest, because the constitution really requires that i m looking forwar d to hearing that case. well, i think the court on that likely will. i shouldn t say i don t wantre to don t jinx it. i think you re pretty confident that the court s going to overturn the old rationale for keeping racial preferences . i m pretty optimistic. it looks like the chief is probably going to write the opinion. and as he said before, the best way to stop discriminating on the basis of race discrimination, on the basis of iscriminat is to stop, stop a discriminating on the basis of race. carrie, do that. great to sees, as always, the affirmative vision for the gop in 2020. for my many angle, yes, many next
that is what this is about the republican expulsion of two black legislators in tennessee a shining a light on the states long history of racism while tennessee was the firs confederate state to b re-admitted to the union after the civil war ended in 1865, the white majority in the stat have no interest in giving u any of its power in 1875, three weeks after congress passed the civi rights act of 1875, th tennessee legislature passed a bill allowing business owner to continue to discriminat based on the color of person s skin. in the years to come, lawmaker in the tennessee state house would work to, quote, redeem the south by we re storing white supremacy and th exploitation of black labor. from 1866 onward, the whit majority in tennessee would en up passing at least 20 different jim crow laws, along
congress passed the civi rights act of 1875, th tennessee legislature passed a bill allowing business owner to continue to discriminat based on the color of a person s skin. in the years to come, lawmaker in the tennessee state house would work to, quote, redeem the south by we re storing white supremacy and th exploitation of black labor. from 1866 onward, the whit majority in tennessee would en up passing at least 20 different jim crow laws, along interracial marriage, an keeping schools an transportation segregated. as we saw this week, this is not just ancient history either many of those jim crow law were still on the books well into the 20th century. and the bust of nathan bedford forrest, a confederate general and the first grand wizard o the ku klux klan was onl removed from the tennessee state capitol in 2021. and just last month, republica state representative pau sherrell, y all, he was forced to apologize after suggested that tennessee should brin