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>> so for now, is affirmative action safe? >> it is safe for now. it's not to say it's going to be safe next year when the court hears a case about whether the voters of michigan are allowed to ban affirmative action. >> right. >> it doesn't even mean that this program at the university of texas will survive when it goes back to the lower court and the judges take another look at it. but what it does mean is universities across the country can still use affirmative action as a way of achieving educational diversity. >> now saying that, and we're going to talk in a minute about the michigan cas...

Today the supreme court issued its long-awaited ruling on affirmative action. but the courtside stepped a major decision and instead sent the case back to a lower court for review. by opting not to make a lasting decision on affirmative action, the court kept alive, at least for now, the use of race to achieve diversity in college admissions. the only dissenting opinion came from liberal justice ruth bader ginsburg. while just elena kagan recused herself from the vote. issued a decision saying affirmative action should be abolished entirely.

Victim, of trayvon martin. they represent their son. and the jury every time they look over at those parents, they're going to think of trayvon martin. so the prosecutor definitely wants that but we have to keep in mind the jury is going to do their best to base their verdict on the evidence in this case. and the fact that the parents are in the courtroom or not is going to be a minor role. but really the important stuff in this case is going to be evidence in the form of testimony and other evidence that is presented for the jury during the trial. >> and that clearly, lisa, was where the defe...

Will know in your head, in your heart, in your stomach, that george zimmerman did not shoot trayvon martin because he had to. he shot him for the worst of all reasons, because he wanted to. >> after a short break, it was the defense's turn. lawyer don west gave jurors an alternate version of events that night, that george zimmerman acted in self-defense. >> i think the evidence will show that this is a sad case. that there are no monsters here. george zimmerman is not guilty of murder. he shot trayvon martin in self-defense after being viciously attacked. and here is the evidence that will sho...

Those ladies on the jury looking at a mother having to go through this? >> there is no doubt those jurors see trayvon martin's parents sitting in that courtroom, and they know about the emotional impact that that can have. five of six of these jurors are mothers. it is going to resonate with them when they hear that a 17-year-old kid with nothing but candy and a phone was killed while walking home from a store. so it is going to have an emotional impact. but the prosecutor knows that what they have in this case. the biggest thing they have in this case is the emotion of trayvon martin being ki...