Page 2 - Census Decision News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Border funding bill. that decision happening after major pressure from moderates in the democratic caucus. >> the children come first. at the end of the day, we have to make sure that the resources needed to protect the children are available. >> the house passed the bill last night with 95 democrats against. progressives wanted more guarantees the $4.6 billion would be used to raise standards of care for migrant kids. the congressional hispanic caucus issued a blistering statement after the bill was passed that said in part, we will not forget this betrayal. >> all right. to the supreme court...

Schools in america. i was part of the second class to integrate berkeley, california public schools almost two decades after brown v. board of education. >> because your city council made that decision. it was a local decision. >> so that's where the federal government must step in. that's why we have the voting rights act and the civil rights act. >> a fact check. biden was a vocal opponent of federally mandated bussing. he argue at the time bussing programs were bad for local communities. he did say he would allow bussing under certain circumstances when a school district has been gerrymande...

Education. that's what i opposed. >> well, there was a failure of states to integrate public schools in america. i was part of the second class to integrate berkeley, california public schools almost two decades after brown v. board of education. >> because your city council made that decision. it was a local decision. >> so that's where the federal government must step in. that's why we have the voting rights act and the civil rights act. >> quite a moment. fact check, biden was a vocal opponent of federally mandated bussing. he argued at the time bussing programs were bad for local communiti...

The question on the census form is foreclosed. secondly, the supreme court today i'd have to say as expected declined to say that congressional districts or state legislative districts can be truck down on the basis of excessive partying gerrymandering. the court's opinion basically said how do you decide when politics, the process becomes excessive? what's the constitutional line? we don't know. there's no good test. that's not for the courts to decide. tom goldstein is with me who's argued many cases before the supreme court. the role of john roberts in the census decision, what's your asses...

So i think when we, you know, get into the meat of this census decision, we will have to see whether the court is stepping back and saying, you know, we're taking our heads out of the sand or if they're going to say, we're going to keep taking your word on these things, that if you look at real life, you know, you have to admit that there are, the evidence, again, so strong that the motivation for this question here was not to enforce the voting rights act. it was to try to exclude particularly hispanic americans, non-hispanic whites, and to, excuse me, to empower non-hispanic whites and also ...