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people as the central players -- >> shush, dont tell them. >> well, cats out of the bag. >> its 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, wh...

the year was 1990, republican incumbent of north carolina senator jesse helms was polling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election, so home called in the political consultants who, in turn, 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, -- but they had to give it to a minority because of the racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt s...

abortion rights still enact a decades old ban? what happens with abortion pills? where can they and cant they be mailed? what about the politics, can a republican congress with a republican president now move to restrict all abortions across the can country? what can democrats do to reverse this, if anything? at least ten states quickly moved to implement laws effectively banning abortions since friday, some happened with trigger laws, another five states expected to enact further laws...

Wrecked reconciled with the equal protection grounds. they like sufficiently focused a measurable objectives were entering the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, and of racial stereotyping, a lack of meaningful and points. we have ever permitted admissions programs to work in that way. and we will not do so today. in a fiery dissent, the core courts new justice ketanji brown jackson called the ruling a tragedy for us all. we will let them eat cake obliviousness the majori...

The court said deciding on a student body in that way is not allowed under the constitution. >> so they try to 2007 and they tried again in 2013 and then again in 2014. but today they succeeded. roberts and thomas, joined by the courts for other conservative justices voted to strike down race conscious admissions. in a 6:33 ruling they found race conscious admissions programs at harvard irony university of north carolina they found them unconstitutional. in violation of the >> delivering the maj...

3 of thomas concurrence, thats where it was. no one joined that, but thomas is clearly saying did -- and he used the word duty, we have a duty as an institution to reassess all of these theyre called substantive due process rights but basically contraception, same-sex marriage marriage, you could put interracial marriage. you wrote a book on justice ginsburg, we will remember how she had argued that roe, she wasnt a justice yet, should have been decided on equal protection grounds, not on privac...

Court said this law can remain on the books while the legal challenges are continuing. this is a very big deal. you outlined what the law does, once a fetal heart beat is detected, at a point when most women dont even know theyre pregnant, it is already led to so many women in texas going to other states. and other states enforcing -- trying to enforce copycat laws. now, the next action should come from the department of justice, which has taken a very urgent stand on this from the beginning say...

Schedule, depositions, discovers rye. >> and the maryland judge is judging it from a different point of view, is he not, going after the question of whether this was racially motivated? thats a whole nother line of argument. >> what happened in the maryland case is a trove of new documents came to light and they said this shows it was politically motivated on equal protection grounds. and the supreme court hadnt ruled squarely on equal prek. so that avenue could continue. >> could be another cha...

The census would benefit republicans and white votes. do you agree? >> i think that certainly his story was accurate in asking that since question, that it would benefit the g.o.p. because it would allow them to draw the districts a certain way. and to calculate federal funding a certain way. i think the problem with his study was that while he was still alive he contacted the administration and told them they needed to add this question. any contact of the census bureau. when that evidence came...

The question, adding citizenship to the question, violating equal protection of immigrants and minorities. it essentially was a discriminatory question. the rationale that the administration through wilbur ross had given, was to protect rights under the voting rights act. the court found that it was very pretextual, that it was done for discriminatory purposes, and roberts interestingly ruled with the other four liberals on the court saying it violated the equal protection clause of the constitu...