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Fd. rules and laws. the "new york times" obtained an internal investigation that is investigating and suing colleges and universities over affirmative actions policies deemed to discriminate over white applicantapplicants. the u.s. supreme court ruled last year that affirmative action programs are permissible if colleges and universities are narrowly tailored without harming over applicants. they said the department does not confirm or deny the existence of any ongoing

Of the constitution and frankly it is wrong if light of our nation's practices and traditions. >> shannon: as you know we're waiting as they're reading more opinions from the bench. justice kennedy now reading one from the bench and all eyes are on him and whether he will have any big announcement today. somebody that you know well from the supreme court, an advocate who is with the constitutional accountability center and they often file in these cases. i want to play a little bit what she had to say about how big a change it could be to the court if justice kennedy does decide to step down. ...

Problems with affirmative action in the past. he's voted to restrict affirmative action programs. but at the arguments, it was clear that he was a little nervous about being the justice who casts the vote to side with sort of the comments that were being made by justices alito and scalia that would really strike this down and end to the policy in whole. he was sort of looking for -- he kept asking about like whether or not we could remand the case back down to the trial court so we could get more evidence into the record. >> okay . thank you so much. thank you for joining us on a very, very co...

Allowed to do it at all. >> and the history here, when they've ruled before? >> the court has twice upheld affirmative action programs in the last 10, 15 years. most recently narrowing it in the same school, university of texas after that narrowing. so a lot of eyes on this. as for what justice scalia was asking, i've been mentioning him asking a question or responding to that brief, doesn't mean he's endorsing it, but everyone i accept i'm not the rower i used to be.. understands he's ruled against affirmative action before and i even accept i have a higher risk of stroke due to afib, some pe...

>> floridians for school choice in the 90s created by bush. tell us about that program and how it's impacted the system in your state. >> unfortunately the bush programs that were implemented here in the 90s have been detrimentally impactful to the students here in the state of florida in the most absurd and disgusting way. and i come from a practitioners backwa background. i'm a teacher by trade and got into policy after i had seen the impact of a number of policies governor bush passed here. everything from third grade retention to the lack of african american participation in state universi...