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The Beat With Ari Melber

time that you're dismantling affirmative action, which seems like a one-two punch that will undermine the efforts of minority students to be admitted to these highly elite colleges where, you know, the chances for success and later paving the way in the world are really high. so there's a lot going on here. this is part of the broader picture that goes all the way from college to secondary school to kindergarten, all the way involved. >> and you're directly involved. what are you trying to achieve here? >> thank you for having me. great to be with you, professor. i went to nyu law so keeping it in the family so to speak. i love the numbers you were putting up, ari, because those are the facts and the facts that speak for themselves. at lawyers for civil rights we're extremely concerned that we're talking about six, seven times more likely to get into harvard if you are a affiliated

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Alex Wagner Tonight

for other areas of american life. the cynicism of that when we're talking about brown and black people, it'slk okay to shift th off to war, but don't as ketanji brown jackson said in her opinion, put them in the boardroom. >> john roberts he's had to mask it in a bit of ways, but at bottom this is a conservative court. it continues to be a super majority of conservative justices doing conservative things. and d here this whole nod to th militaryno academies, the mility academies are no different from other institutions of higher education. colleges have programs that feed officers into our fighting force. the military has always been ths most integrated institution in american life, and he knows that, but that's not what's going to sell here. he has a project that he wants to prosecute, and it's dismantling affirmative action, slowly. he's on the jolly trolley. clarence thomas is on the asella, wants to get there

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The ReidOut

dispositive here, but more importantly, it seemed like the court didn't even care about that threshold question of whether the litigants had standing. they wanted it get to the merits. that's what worries me. this is a court that seems to be in a hurry to decide this affirmative action case, and again, it would not be beyond the pale or unexpected for this court to begin the process of dismantling affirmative action as the country prepares to celebrate the new federal holiday, juneteenth, which is meant to commemorate the freedom of african americans from enslavement. >> it's the inconsistency. the conservatives on the court don't seem to have a coherent set of ideas. on the one hand, they say precedent is important. on the other hand, they say precedent is trash. on the one hand, they say this person has standing. on the other hand, they don't. the only thing that seems consistent is there are political outcomes you can tell they want, and then they find a way to get there in their rulings. >> well, as one person said to

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The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart

group of supreme court justices in history will gather to hear on whether affirmative action in supreme college admissions is constitutional. -- a real chance of dismantling affirmative action altogether. joining me, dwight mcbride, president of the new school and -- senior counsel at the legal defense fund. thank you both very much for coming to the sunday show. michelle, i will start with you. the ldl wrote amicus brief in this case, representing 25 students and alumni groups. any anticipation on how the court might rule? >> we are going to have to wait and see what the court does hear the court has surprised us before. as you know, the court expected that the public expects of the court to overrule affirmative action before and it did not.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150314:14:53:00

better future. not only for african-american students, but also for their white classmates. in the 50 years since affirmative action the policy has been steadily eroded in courts ballot boxes and state legislatures and faces more resistance now than ever before. today racial preferences in public universities are banned in eight states, which according to an estimate are collectively home to more than a quarter of all students. in 1978 the question of affirmative action and higher education became a national plash point when it was first taken up by the supreme court in california. in that case the court split decision ruled racial quotas unconstitutional, but also held that race could be considered as part of o the criteria for college admission. university of california schools would become one of the most acute examples of the consequences of dismantling affirmative action in 1996.

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