decision. just a few days ago cbs news ran a pole asking americans about this very issue. 70% responded that colleges should not be allowed to use race in college admissions. a new york times poll recently found 60% of democrats also oppose race as a factor in admissions. americans across the country have rejected affirmative action at the ballot box too, even in blue state california. in the 2020 election democratic leaders in the state put affirmative action on the ballot. the pro- affirmative action activist, the governor, u.s. senators and the golden state warriors pushed voters to support the initiative. they out bid opponents of affirmative action by 19-1. in the end, nearly 60% of californians voted to kill affirmative action. it didn t work. no matter how hard the democratic party tries, no matter how much money they spend, the american people have rejected the view that we should be judged on our skin color. so if anyone is trying to hold on to the past like the demo
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
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-conscious admissions will end. currently race is permitted to be a factor, meaning one factor among many to be considered as schools seek to create a diverse student body. kwoet quote teas, however, are unconstitutional. that s the bottom line after the supreme court has taken up several cases involve ing affirmative action over time. justice sandra day o connor wrote we expect 25 years from now the us
[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
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