Page 32 - Affirmative Action Programs News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> you have to take him at his word. >> this is a context, i'm sure. david duke is a famous guy. steve skalise is not an idiot. i'm pointing all three of those things out. >> no one knows anything under misapprehension of what david duke was. it was, by all acounts, a bad sdgs to go to that conference by the standard of what he's trying to do in racist profile in the state at that point of time. perhaps he saw it was a risk worth taking. >> perhaps he saw the state rep repealing affirmative action programs. stricter public housing guide guidelines. but those all become particularly the 1990s w...

What he's trying to do and raise his profile in the state at that point of time. perhaps he saw it was a risk worth taking. >> perhaps he saw the state rep repealing affirmative action programs. stricter public housing guidelines. but those all become particularly the 1990s when the affirmative action wars really heat up. those become mainstream planks of republican party politics. >> you know, some of what he said, although a less extreme version of it, when you watch him, he's fighting over welfare and what is happening with welfare recipients. and that evolved into a centrist position. and ...

>> you have to take him at his word. >> this is a context, i'm sure. david duke is a famous guy. steve skalise is not an idiot. i'm pointing all three of those things out. >> no one knows anything under misapprehension of what david duke was. it was, by all acounts, a bad sdgs to go to that conference by the standard of what he's trying to do in racist profile in the state at that point of time. perhaps he saw it was a risk worth taking. >> perhaps he saw the state rep repealing affirmative action programs. stricter public housing guidelines. but those all become particularly the 1990s when th...

Welcome back, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. a major case, a big decision a short time ago. the u.s. supreme court dealt another blow to affirmative action programs. the justices voted 6-2 to uphold the controversial michigan law that does away with racial consideration in college admissions. let's bring in our senior washington correspondent joe johns. this is essentially a road map for other states potentially to do the same. give us a background what happened. >> i think that's right. it's a setback for civil rights groups. as you mentioned, it wasn't even close. a 6-2 vote wit...

Action and that amendment was challenged here in the supreme court, and the challenger said that it rigs the political system that if somebody wants to have affirmative action they have to get a constitutional amendment passed to allow it again, whereas if somebody else wants some admission process like the legacy admissions, all they have to do is to go to school board or the college board, and that is going to rig the political system, and the court rejected that argument today, but it goes out of the way to say it is not saying anything at all about the constitutional ti of the affirmative ...