A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. There has to be some discrimination here. There has to be something against Asian Americans specifically. This case is going to be something more than just about admissions. The notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating for a number of areas of the law. An
Commercial for the Sherrod Brown campaign, admits he has kind of a gravelly voice. We are going to show that later in this hour, for anyone who has been wondering why does he sound like that . You had me so worried that there was something terribly wrong. I was like no, its just he has an adorable voice. He does. I like it. Andrew weissman is back. Donald trump is 71 days away from discovering whether he will spend the rest of his life as criminal and civil defendant donald trump in trials and Appeals Courts or whether he gets to wipe away most of that if he becomes president. But, they are ready to take a look for us. If the harris momentum continues, what it means for Defendant Trump Next year. Ever since i saw, today, unexpectedly that jack smith filed an appeal with the 11th circuit, i did not expect that to happen today. They found the appeal on whether or not judge aileen canon is going to be allowed to have the last word informing out of the classified documents case. Ever since
Series on elections, covering election operations, election integrity, and election security, which will be the focus of our conversation today with our guest, a former department of Homeland Security secretary, mr. Michael chertoff. Im going to read a little bit about mr. Chertoffs bio before i turned it over to our host, elliot burke. As secretary of the u. S. Department of Homeless Committee from 2005 to 2009, Michael Chertoff led the cutHomeland Security from 2005 2009, Michael Chertoff transformed fema into an Effective Organization following hurricane katrina. His greatest successes have earned if headlines because the Important News is what didnt happen. At the chertoff group, mr. Chertoff provides highlevel Strategic Counsel to corporate and government leaders on a broad range of Security Issues, from Risk Identification and prevention to preparedness, response, and recovery. For heading the department of Homeland Security, mr. Chertoff served as a header will judge on the u. S
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Served on the Supreme Court for 35 years, hear a panel of judges and attorneys, all former Supreme Court law clerks talk about his legacy. The Bar Association of San Francisco hosted the event. High everyone, good evening, thank you so much for coming to a nice program the impact of Justice John Paul stevens. I am an appellate lawyer here in thefrancisco, i am also chairman of the appellate section of the Bar Association of San Francisco which organized this event. I would like to extend a warm welcome to members of a few groups who are cosponsoring tonights program, the ninth judicial the federal Bar Association, Northern District of california chapter and the American Constitution Society bay area chapter. I would also like to welcome cspan which is broadcasting the discussion tonight. I find that exciting, because in 10 years or so but i have been putting on programs like this, this is the first time cspan has come, so i have made it. It is some of the most awful programming when co