A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. There has to be some discrimination here. There has to be something against Asian Americans specifically. This case is going to be something more than just about admissions. The notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating for a number of areas of the law. An
[crowd murmuring] - a crucial supreme court ruling on affirmative action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. - the central question being decided this time: is should affirmative action continue forever in the name of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on asian american students? this is the most important civil rights case of our era. i don t think it s an overstatement to say they re freaking out right now. one admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that they re thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. there has to be some discrimination here. there has to be something against asian americans specifically. this case is going to be something more than just about admissions. the notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating
Companies. The typical family of four earning 75,000 will see an Income Tax Cut of more than 2,000 slashing their tax bill in half. Its going to be a lot of money. Going to have an extra 2,000. Theres more than that. Our plan expands the Child Tax Credit for working families. Youll hear the numbers very soon. Theyre even larger than anticipated. Even nearly doubles the amount of income taxed at the rate of zero. I dont know if any of you are paying zero. I hope youre not. I hope youre paying above that, but a lot of people who are having its a little tougher will be paying zero. It closes special interest loop holes. It lowers tax rates for families. And our plan also cuts taxes on businesses, which is expected to raise income by an average of
more than 4,000. So your income goes up. Its like having a 4,000 increase, which isnt bad, which isnt bad. Its a lot of money to spend, a lot of jobs will be created with the money that you spend. Very special. It makes america competitive again
Anything else, this man was not necessarily that person. However, my point was just to say that you can be lowlevel george, you can be low on the org chart and still be the guy who goes to moscow and was sending plenty of emails to people who were high level. High level, theres now it seems like there may be a fair number of people, including high level steve, mr. Bannon, who is for the first time, this is the first moment in which highlevel steve is being dragged into this investigation. First time weve heard his name in a material way and that story may be developing. Let me jump in on this. The point is that when you want to do something sensitive like this, its something akin to an intelligence operation which was what this was on the russian side and i would argue in ways even on the trump side. You do send a lowlevel guy. You dont send the senior guy. You send the low level guy because he attracts less attention. You do that with purpose. So im very much validating johns point bu
Now, Jenny Willowby did speak to the Washington Post about some of the episodes of her marriage to porter. During one of these fights, we were both yelling at each other. I disengaged and removed myself from the fight to go take a shower. And rob wasnt finished fighting i suppose. At that point he was still angry. And so he came and grabbed me by the shoulders here and pulled me out of the shower in a rage. That is her account of what happened as recorded by the Washington Post. As you pointed out, rob porter has said these have been smears and allegations that he denies. This is one of those deeply painful issues in someones personal life that has now spilled out into public view and at the highest level also of the white house. Kelly odonnell at the white house. Thank you. Two republican senators speaking out today about Rob Porter Including the man who helped get
who has gone through fbi background checks, its absolutely inconceivable that what these women told the fbi agents didnt