court ruling that didn t go his way. top court dealing with affirmative action. that means merit agains and the media will need a fainting couch. the worst thing about affirmative action is that it created a clarence thomas. clarence thomas has criticized affirmative action and we know that s why he s on the supreme court. i think this is sticking dag dag dager in our back. we will see that segregation become wider and wider. what s next, gay marriage? is this leading to no women in colleges soon? who knows. no women in college. we can dream. i joke. biden wasn t done sobbing running over to the safe space of msnbc. find it so out of sorts with the basic value system of the american people. do you worry without court reform this conservative majority is too young and too conservative that they might do too much harm? i think they may do too much harm. ink some of the court are beginning to realize their legitimacy is being questioned in ways it had not bee
also tonight the pentagon approveathize deployment of some 1,500 u.s. troops to the southern border with mexico as the u.s. braces for a new surge of thousands of migrants. the pentagon press secretary joins us live to discuss the timing and the scope of this new military mission. and senators clash over a proposed code of ethics for the u.s. supreme court justices at a hearing prompted by scrutiny of justice clarence thomas. i ll speak with chairman dick durbin who s accusing the high court of being in his word oblivious to these ethics issues. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with two very consequential deadlines for the biden administration and the country, for that matter. the u.s. facing the dire possibility of defaulting on its debt next month, and a major migrant surge across the southern border is expected next week when a key trump era immigration policy expires. our
i ve given my life to the law. i care deeply about the law. and i think that the law fare we have seen against president trump will do great damage well beyond our time in public service. now, republicans with zero irony are still pretending to be the party of law and order. even though they re literally the exact opposite. and their extremism is rotting their party away from the state level on up. plus, trump and maga republicans once again threaten retribution against his political rivals, vowing to unleash a biblical flood of partisan indictments to avenge trump s felony conviction in new york. and we begin tonight with one of our two major political parties. the maga party. the national republican party and their political stars are pretty extreme. they spend their time on capitol hill relitigating the origins of the covid virus, bickering about the vaccines, calling for the jailing of anthony fauci, and falsely accusing president biden of persecuting donald trump
congress wondering who gave the court permission to bypass our system of checks and balances. stuart so the answer to josh hawley s question is marcia blackburn wants to overturn griswald, which is the ruling that legalized contraception. one more, claerns thomas in his concurring opinion in dobbs, in future cases, he says, we should reconsider all of this court s precedence including griswald, larns said you can t kick in the door and arrest gay people and o o berg fell. your thoughts? look, i said this, i think that in the republican party, since world war ii, two strans. an eisenhower strand, sane, boring and governing and joe mccarthy strand. those consperitorials, nongoverning. a lot of us who worked for george bush thought that we were the dominant gene, that the party was going to be like us. and i don t know any conclusion to come to but we were wrong. what the republican party is now
academic success of african-americans want to boost they academic success through certain emphasis on certain thing, there s no one stopping that. there s no one stopping white american, hispanic americans, all americans for improving their own lives. it s just that the court said this is not our job. we will not endorse discrimination. it s against the 14th amendment. you can t fight discrimination with discrimination. claerns thomas said race does not determine your value. he said it does not determine success. there are so many other things that go into success. people have to realize where we are in life is the result of all the decisions we have made. some of us start on third base. there are certain white americans who are getting into these elite universities because their fathers went there. legacies. legacy administration. athletic scholarships. there are people that do achieve