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 dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre 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 for a number of areas of the law. An
trump s right-hand man, walt nauta, enters a plea to charges he helped trump mishandle classified documents. in the aftermath of the supreme court affirmative action decision, a republican senator warns colleges against admitting too many blacks and latinos. we discuss. elon musk spent $44 billion to buy twitter. what s it worth now? after more than 30 million people have signed up for mark zuckerberg s rival app threads in less than 24 hours. we begin tonight with the third time being the charm for walt nauta, donald trump s co-defendant in the special counsel s classified documents case. he finally faced his arraignment after finding a florida-based criminal attorney. he said, yes, your honor, as he pleaded not guilty to the six charges laid out in last month s indictment, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record and making false statements. mind you, that was three more words than trump uttered during his arraignment last month. naut
the last scheduled decision day of the term, we could finally get some answers on some massive undecided cases. rulings on affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, and lgbtq+ rights among others. decisions that could impact all of us, and they could come down at any minute, and we have a full lineup of guests and experts on this. i want to begin with nbc news correspondent julia ainsley who s standing by at the supreme court for us. julia, set the scene there, how might this go down? reporter: well, you re right, this is the last scheduled day, ana, but we re expecting another day possibly to get on the court s schedule for tomorrow. that would leave just two days left in june when they typically wrap up their term, and they have these three huge decisions left. so doing the math, we expect at least one of those big decisions to come today, either when it comes to religious rights versus free speech, religious rights and lgbt rights. of course affirmative action, and h
a debate coming up. john: begin with the supreme court hearing arguments today on what could be one of the most consequential rulings for higher education in decades. hello, john roberts in washington and hello to you this afternoon. gillian: good to be with you, john, on this spooky halloween. john: good to be with you as well. gillian: i m gillian turner. whether to end affirmative action policies in a pair of cases. john: opponents argue the criteria has harmed millions of students, particularly asian-americans. david spunt starts us off live outside the supreme court. did justice brown jackson recuse herself. that s right, because of her position on the harvard board of overseers, and her connections to harvard university. she thought it was best she sits out. there are two separate cases, overall affirmative action affects millions of students across the country and the justices began hearing two arguments three hours ago. started with the case out of the uni
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