and even trickier because there s a six-person jury here which is astounding to me that from the standpoint of this man s, you know, look, we can all have this feelings about he deserves not only his day in court, he deserves a fair trial and deserves not to be judged unless and until all the evidence is in. here s the point. people of color have been told we have to abide by that. we knew the murderers were out there. running around with reckless glee celebrating the fact he killed medgar evers. that s not that long ago. if paula deen can be excused because she is of that generation, imagine how many sit on juries who make decisions about the future of our children. you re right. the screening process presumably by a competent attorney to make sure that doesn t happen. it does matter if this one juror of color is black or latino. because the evidence implicifies. people who latino are just as
frankly, is the facts don t matter. we know the fact is abigail fisher would not have been admitted to u.t. austin regardless of her race. we know the fact matters u.t. has a much more modest plan, university of texas does, than even the michigan plan. that this court upheld. so what they re really trying to do is rewrite history. they re trying to rewrite history in order to rewrite the future. fortunately, the court, at least the majority of justices certainly did not take that step with justice thomas. the court did not kill off affirmative action, higher education. it remanded it down to the lower court, appellate court and said you need to apply strict scrutiny as your standard review. meaning you need to look really carefully at the arguments the university of texas is making in defense of using a racial consideration. what should we make of this? what is next for this case and the broader constitutional arguments around affirmative action? in some ways, chris, it s not much
his motivations in doing this should be amongst the points of discussion we re having as we watch this story unfold. i would think that far and away, the most significant point of the entire episode, where most of our focus ought to be, if not virtually all of it, is on what we have learned the united states government is doing in complete secrecy in constructing this massive spying apparatus that a secret federal court in 2011 said was both illegal and unconstitutional. and that top-level obama officials including james clapper went to congress and lied about when explicitly asked whether it was being directed at millions of americans. that s where the overwhelming bulk of our focus would be. as far as the specific revelation today in that newspaper that you referenced, it isn t surprising to any at all, when i interviewed mr. snowden he had said, remember, he has worked at the nsa since 2009. prior to that he worked at the
the worst racists and white supremacists in our history. slave holders argue that slavery was a positive good that civilized blacks and elevated them in every dimension of life. a century later segregationists similarly asserted that segregation was not only benign, but good for black students. the university s professed food intentions cannot excuse its outright racial discrimination any more than such intentions justified the now denounced arguments of slave holders and segregationists. so while today was not the day in which the supreme court killed off affirmative action higher education, it was the day in which one of the court s most conservative justices made it plainly clear how determined he is to end the practice. and keep in mind, he has allies both on this report, and as we reported here in the greater conservative legal movement. joining me to discuss, the director of education practice for the naacp legal defense fund. damon, can i start with your reaction to the claren
constructing this massive spying apparatus that a secret federal court in 2011 said was both illegal and unconstitutional. and that top-level obama officials including james clapper went to congress and lied about when explicitly asked whether it was being directed at millions of americans. that s where the overwhelming bulk of our focus would be. as far as the specific revelation today in that newspaper that you referenced, it isn t surprising to any at all, when i interviewed mr. snowden he had said, remember, he has worked at the nsa since 2009. prior to that he worked at the cia for 2 1/2 years. that he gradually came to see there was a lot of wrongdoing taking place that the american people weren t aware of and decided rather long ago that he would take this course of action to inform his fellow citizens. and i think what he said in the interview today was essentially there was one last set of documents he thought he needed access to complete the picture to be able to present a cl