CNNW Smerconish July 5, 2024
support. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. monday america celebrates the third ever federal holiday of juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans. as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college admissions. does that mean it achieved its purpose or we're abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we'll soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is that race-consc...