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Right decision in places like syria and places like ukraine. >> gloria borger, thanks very much. up next, new legal window allows lawsuits by flight 370 family members. could it force the release new information? and the u.s. supreme court deals a blow to the affirmative action program at universities. across america, people like basketball hall of famer
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 it's 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. it's a bit of a warning to other colleges nationwide that, you know, their affirmative action programs could be in trouble. >> bepete williams...
That the legal standard here is a very narrow one. to use a -- to use a term in the law, strict scrutiny. that means that a program that makes a distinction based on race is presumed to be unconstitutional, unless the government in this case the university, a public university, can show a good reason why it's needed and that it's narrowly tailored to achieve very specific ends. so this doesn't say you can't have affirmative action. it's hardly a broad endorsement of affirmative action. but it sends the case back to the lower court to take another look at the affirmative action program that was...
Issued a concuring opinion in which he says that the earlier cases should be overruled. he wants to do something very broad, strike down all of affirmative action. the rest of the court doesn't want to do that. >> i want to bring in ken, a professor of constitutional law at nyu. is that how you see this? i understand that no one involved here, just come down, has had a chance to read the specifics of this. >> exactly. so i want to sound a few more cautionary notes with a caveat i haven't looked at the opinion yet. based on the coverage i've seen on the twitter verse and blog sphere, the last t...
Apply the right text. foes of affirmative action say no, in repeating the law and placing special emphasis on race neutral alternatives, the court is setting a higher bar for schools to clear. opponents of affirmative action, martin, were hoping that the court would use this case to put an end to it. it clearly didn't. it's not the kind of endorsement of affirmative action that the court handed down ten years ago in a case from the university of michigan. as a practical matter, the affirmative action program continues in texas where it case came from but it has to go back to court. it got an i...