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Mentioned shelby county case and fisher case, a big affirmative action which will decided by june in the supreme court. what we see in affirmative is what a scholar called ideological drift, it was at one end of the spectrum, drifts over to the other side of the spectrum, as you were describing in your essay at the beginning. his example is color-blindness. color-blindness comes from dissent. it's seen as idea logically part of the left. now in more recent years it's drifted over in the court's language to be a tool of the right where color-blindness has been a name where affirmative action pr...

The u.s. supreme court on the verge of two major decisions, dealing with racial discrimination in the country. in the coming weeks, affirmative action programs at the nation's public colleges and universities could be uprooted and a federal statute that guards against discrimination in state and local voting procedures could be weakened. joining me is ary melberg, host of msnbc's "the cycle." it's a pleasure to have you here away from those cyclists, this way you can talk on your own. court is soon going to rule on this suit brought by a ut austin student, abigail fisher. she claims she was re...

Women, does it? >> martin, it has a lot to do with equal opportunity or the lack thereof in this country. i think that when you just take a look at what's before the supreme court right now with the fisher case, and university of texas and the fact that affirmative action programs are absolutely on the line as being unconstitutional now. that is an open door that will be closed to students of color. so when you're talking about not only unequal earning, earning potential of women, or the fact that with hillary clinton in the 2008 election, she talked about shattering the glass ceiling. there i...

Passing in maryland and maine. still too early to tell if washington, itself, will follow suit. but voters in minnesota said no to placing a ban on gay marriage in the state's constitution. >> californians voted for repeal to the death penalty. the sentences of 700 death row prisoners will now be changed to life in prison. in oklahoma they voted to wipe out all affirmative action programs in state government hiring, education, and contracting practices. also a coup for all the women out there. we will have a record number of women in the senate. beginning in 2013, i believe. 18 is the number. ...

In congress. that's why we're here. >> congressman mcgovern, will you take the heat? will the president take the heat from the right? and it will come. you democrats cost us afghanistan by pulling the plug on this. >> the taliban are awful rotten people. but there are a lot of awful rotten people all over the world. we can't occupy every country. here's my hope. if we can set a timeline, if we can set an exit strategy, that will put pressure on the afghan government to either step up or not. the responsibility lies with the afghan government. we have been there ten years. we have spent hundred...