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While i am painfully aware of the social and economic ravages which have befallen my race and all who suffer discrimination i hold out enduring hope that the country will live up to its principles that all men are treated equal, are equal citizens and must be treated equally before the law. justice ketanji brown jackson pushed back in a separate dissent bashing the majority opinion as saying it was let them eat cake obliviousness and dealing race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. bu...

Constitution wants. >> reporter: the biden administration working to provide guidance to colleges nationwide. >> were going to produce by september and publish best practices around college admission practices to ensure across the country that our students know that this administration is behind them and we support them making it to college. >> reporter: now there is a caveat in this case. the supreme court said that u.s. military service academies can actually continue to take race into conside...

Mentioned they have accepted military, a carveout buried in a footnote. its interesting to see how the court has sort of under roberts gone about making these big moves, even though he is not h saying he is overturning the key decision upon which all of the current admissions programs are based and using race as a plus factor as you mentioned, he hasnt said im going to overrule it, but everyone else e seems to agree he did.e the dissent certainly thinks he has. justice thomas thinks he has. he d...

Preserved, which is an interesting carveout. >> you know why thats interesting. during oral arguments, the biden administration really seized on the military, really solicitor general spent most of her argument -- but she was trying to say, look, this is why its important in the military, hoping to convince them, of course, it would be important all the way around. in a footnote chief justice roberts said the military academies werent before us today, so he allowed that continue, again, somethin...

Struggling to create a diverse student bother. this is not something in the ether, but it is happen, and the students have said the same, and my question is what do you think that the universities and the colleges need to do, and going forward, and what you think about the fact that the military is not included in this. justice roberts pointed out in the footnote, that it does not include the military, and do you think it should? >> no, i dont think that the military should be including race. th...

Essentially exempting military schools from the ruling, and, wolf, that was spelled out in a footnote in the majority opinion. justice ketanji brown jackson called that out saying this court is prioritizing diversity for the bunker instead of the board room, as she put it. there is a lot of gray area in this opinion. it will likely lead to litigation in the future about just how far school might take race into consideration, especially when students mention it in personal essays. >> thank you so...

Inherited, and so is privilege. and those who owned enslaved people were privileged people. >> reporter: not privileged the enslaved. congressman gregory meeks has sought his familys past for years. records are sparse or nonexistent. >> i want to know now who was that person or people that was able to survive the horrific slave trade. how did they survive, you know, being whipped and chained and slavery. >> reporter: the connection to slavery seems more than an interesting historical footnote, y...

Had said a child it for mid august, a day every legal expert has expected to. slide tonight, in a brand-new filing for special counsel jack smith, the prosecutions quest in a later date, december 11th, and setting forth a new schedule for pre trial hearings. in the filing, prosecution says quote, defense counsel confirmed they do not oppose an adjournment of the current trial date, and request a status hearing with the court to address the schedule in this action. the fence counsel anticipate fi...

And setting forth a new schedule for pre trial hearings. in the filing, prosecution says quote, defense counsel confirmed they do not oppose an adjournment of the current trial date, and request a status hearing with the court to address the schedule in this action. the fence counsel anticipate finding an opposition to this motion, addressing their objections to the governments proposed dates, and quote. in a separate filing, the prosecution, the government reveals that it is turned over a list ...

Makes sense to be able to release this type of indictment from special counsel, jack smith. the american public needed to know the extent, and the depth, that the obstruction took place by donald trump. the efforts that were taken by him to ensure that he was going to be able to keep documents and materials, he knew. thats the important factor there. right, ali? he knew he wasnt supposed to keep them. its in audiotapes. it did messaging. its in communications with his lawyers. which footnote, is...