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History. one of the things that we talk about in my class, it's actually how it's chinese immigrants and black americans who were considered the two groups who could not be assimilated. and before the chinese exclusion act and then after the act, often, you would see black and chinese people being written out of their rights in the law. in fact, the one group who did not achieve citizenship under the 14th amendment were asian americans. and they would have to -- again. again, a very early school desegregation case in mississippi was a chinese family suing not to have their kids in the black sc...

Medical school at davis because he is white. the place he might have had was given to a minority applicant with lower test scores than he had. the court said that was wrong. but the court also said that race can be a legal factor in a school admission program. the court was deeply divided five to four and the various opinions ran to 40,000 words. >> you hear that? reverse discrimination, right? we've heard that term a ton. since then, it's basically the the concept that was used in the argument the supreme court chief justice john roberts made in 2007 in an opinion in a school desegregation ca...

Now, seven in ten women want roe versus wade to stay intact. what do you say to those women who say what are you going to do here? how are you going to protect this right? >> well, first of all, let me say that there's big difference between overturning some precedents such as plescy versus ferguson which was overturned in the school desegregation case in brown versus board of education, versus overturning a ruling that has been settled law for 46 years. 45 years. and it involves a constitutional right and has been reaffirmed by the court 26 years ago. and indeed, justice roberts has made very...

Justify it. i then moved on to questioning him about four cases that he listed on his questionnaire which asked him to list the, quote, ten most significant litigated matters he personally handled. among those ten cases that he listed on his questionnaire were three voting rights cases and a desegregation case. now that surprised me. and that's because i know senator sessions, and i know his record on voting rights. he's no champion of voting rights. he called the voting rights act inclues of and complained about states with a history of discriminationing. but here he seemed to be trumpeting h...

I then moved on to question him about four cases that he listed on his questionnaire which asked him to list the, quote, ten most significant litigated matters he personally handled. among those ten cases that he listed on his questionnaire were three voting rights cases and a desegregation case. now, that surprised me. that's because i know senator sessions, and i know his record on voting rights. he's no champion of voting rights. he called the voting rights act intrusive and complained about states with a history of discrimination being subject to preclearance. but here he seemed to be trum...