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Now in detroit? we know the answer to that. so do we have to continue and emphasize affirmative action programs? yes, without quotas. do we have to do a lot of things in america -- if you can salvage anything about this national debate isn't the word, national clash of ideas about the trayvon martin case, it's that we still have a long way to go and i think the president very appropriately highlighted a lot of that yesterday as only a president of the united states can. >> did you think that trayvon martin got justice? >> i trust the judgment of a jury of his peers, of individuals. i can't sec...

Against prop 8 this week. some of t they were forced to answer some of the biggest questions of our time. let's look at these decisions. yay on affirmative action. how do you define the court after this week? >> strategic. for the affirmative action case the court ruled seven to one. it can stand but they stood behind a more tight definition of what policies can move forward. ultimately it's not looking all that positive for affirmative action programs when they go back to the lower courts given the new standards. that's a strategy there. that was keying up for the next day when the voter righ...

Who was rejected from the university of texas. fisher has since graduated from louisiana state university. "outfront" tonight, the reverend jesse jackson. always good to talk to you. let me ask you this pointblank -- did the supreme court miss an opportunity today? >> yeah, to the extent that race remains a fact among us. that's a victory because they sought to eliminate it altogether. you know, there were white students that had lower grades than she had. they thought a focus on race was a vulnerable spot in the whole agenda. race is a factor, gender is a factor. it's about trying to remove t...

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...

Vanderbilt or johns hopkins or harvey mudd college, any of those can continue to use their affirmative action programs with no interference from the courts. it is only public universities that might have to scale back and given that this is a 7-1 opinion and that they are not overruling any of their earlier cases i think this might be limited to schools like texas, that have their 10% program. but the court is making sure that courts will scrutinize affirmative action programs more carefully. i do think, though, that as long as a school is using race as a factor, not as a hard determinant, and...