juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans, and as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is that the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college administrations. does that mean that it achieved its purpose or that we re abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we will soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is that race conscious administrations will end. currently race is permitted to be a factor in the administrations calculus, meaning one factor among many to be considered as schools seek to create a diverse student body for everybody s benefit. quotas on the other hand, are unconstitutional. that s the bottom line after the supreme court has taken up several major cases involving affirmative action over the years. and one of those cases was in 2003, it was grutter versus bollinger, involved the
materials were likely concealed and removed from mar-a-lago as part of an effort to obstruct the federal investigation. correspondent david spunt starts us out tonight. is he in palm beach, florida. good evening, david. john, good evening to you. on the eve of a federal court hearing, where president donald trump, former president donald trump s legal team will appear before a judge to ask for a special master to go over documents seized from mar-a-lago earlier this month, the justice department is laying out a new timeline with brand new details. federal investigators focusing on potential obstruction of justice over the handling of classified material taken during a day long search of former president trump s florida estate. in this court filing, the justice department says, quote: government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. this after the trump team was served a
that, then i think people are rightly skeptical. there are many statistics about african americans that confirm president obama s feelings that things are not equal. looking at education first, in 2021, 24.7% of blacks had a bo bachelor s degree or higher as compared to 38.3% of whites. quality of life, median income for the average black household was $48,297, for white house holds, nearly $78,000. 19.5% of blacks living at poverty level compared with 10% of whites. the life expectancies at birth for blacks, 70.8 years, 76.4 for whites. and homicide, the leading cause of death among black males 15 to 34, 20 times higher than their white counterparts. by those measures, we ve still not wiped away the scars of centuries, as president johnson would have said. the gates of freedom have been
0-4 at the plate and allowed one run and struck out nine from the mound, but his effort was not enough to put the angels past the astros, houston won it 3-1. and in the nation s capital, the new york mets kicked off a new era under the manager buck showalter with a 5-1 win over the nationals. another 16 teams will begin their seasons today. including in this afternoon s opener in the bronx for the new york yankees, hosting your boston red sox. now, to the 86th masters tournament in augusta, georgia. tiger woods is in the mix. after round one. an extraordinary story. the legendary golfer ended the day at a 1 under par 71. that leaves plenty of hope for a sixth green jacket come sunday. woods tally is just over the average first round score for his five previous masters wins. that would be 70.8. tiger s day included three birdies and two bogeys, and leaving him in a nine-way tie
politics says president obama blinked at a rate of 70.8 times per minute last week. much more than mitt romney. it s a measure of stress, but does it definitely say which candidate will win in november? on meet the press, nbc political director chuck todd said that president obama may have a problem because hispanic voters are not as enthuse see as 12ik as they were in 2008. even though he s going to get more hispanics if less of them turn out, it s a net zero and yet you look at republican enthusiasm up, senior enthusiasm up. by the way, all of this, pre-debate. on abc s this week paul krugman hammered the media for not fact checking mitt romney in the debate. the news media will not cover me as long as i forcefully say he won. the press is against obama now? it doesn t know how to handle untruths. and a strange political