add to that the court knocking down joe biden s student debt relief and saying a web designer can t be forced to design a same-sex wedding sight, and site, and you have many infuriated democrats. congressman ted lou says he wants to expand the high court because of its radical, extreme supermajority. keep in mind that court pack turned into a fiasco for fdr are. affirmative action has always had a contradiction at its heart, hurting some people like asian-americans who are also a minority, or helping others such as blacks and hispanics. and it s brought out plenty of ugliness. the atlantic s jemele hill, who is black, saying you gladly carried the water for white supremacy and stabbed the folks in the back whose people fought diligently for asian-american rights, white supremacy? it s perfectly fine for pundits to attack coe discuss i rulings they don t like scotus rulings they don t like, but is it going too far to try to undermine the institution? i m howard kurtz9 and
sandra: awaiting a press conference for students for fair admission who brought on this case after we heard from the president there just a short time ago. so that presser in washington will be underway any moment. we ll get there when it begins. the group brought two separate cases against the university of north carolina and harvard to the nation s highest court and asian-american student claims he was rejected from six elite universities by race. reaction out of it. thank you for coming. let me introduce participants of this press conference. on my far right is calvin yang, calvin is a participating member of students for fair admissions. he was rejected from harvard a few years ago. to my right is thomas mccarthy, typical spelling, thomas mccarthy. tom is the founding partner of a law firm consevoir and mccarthy, and chief trial counsel and students for fair admissions versus the university of north carolina. to my left is adam mortara. adam is with mortara law, forme
[crowd murmuring] - 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 don t think it s an overstatement to say they re freaking out right now. one admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that they re 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
Continues we will tell all. And the inside track on Donald Trumps Business Week later. You can get in touch with the Programme Using the just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. We start in the us where car giant Fiat Chrysler is denying it faces its own dieselgate scandal just a day after volkswagen was fined more than 4 billion for cheating emissions tests. The us regulator the Environmental Protection agency is accusing Fiat Chrysler of failing to disclose emissions software, at least eight different types, installed in thousands of its diesel vehicles. Epa says the software allowed the cars to exceed Pollution Limits and pump out higher levels of harmful nitrogen dioxide. But the companys boss says it did nothing illegal. So how big could this be . The investigation involves Thejeep Grand Cherokee suv and dodge ram pickup made in the last three years. That adds up to more than 100,000 vehicles the vast majority sold in the us. The epa says Fiat Chrysler could be liable for fines of up to 4