hot button social issues, republican congressman nancy mace will join us with her take. but first correspondent matt finn with the latest hi matt. mike: the house voted to amend the annual defense spending bill by overturning policy that reimbursing service members for abortion-related expenses. the house also voted to ban transgender health services in the military. in a bitter debate republicans have been arguing in part that the abortion reis burstment is a piece of the democrats woke military agenda that republicans are trying to end. the speaker of the house kevin mccarthy says democrats are trying to change the course of history. and for decades in america, from the most proceed-life to the most pro choice person in congress they believed in the hide amendment and that is simply what it s saying. do not use taxpayer money on abortion. and the other part would be is, what they re looking at, should we allow wokism in our military. now democrats allege republicans a
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
Its often called a once in a lifetime experience, and soon it could be seen for the second night in a row for people here in the bay area. Ive never seen Northern Lights in my whole life. My cousins did. My friends did. Now i cant wait for my turn right now, spectators are gathering for the rare opportunity to potentially see the Northern Lights. Good evening. Im amber lee. It could be the second night in a row that these lights are visible in bay area skies. Ktvu is joey huerta is live from the Chabot Observatory in the Oakland Hills, where both astronomers and stargazers are gathered. Tonight, joey. Yeah. Amber. What a night out here. The spectators have been coming in for hours now, waiting in line. There at capacity. Theres a parking lot that holds 400 cars. It is full at this point. These people, eager to see this rare solar storm over the bay area. The Northern Lights, a stunning light show illuminating the night sky across the country. And right here in the bay area, seen for th
We are very happy to do that. As much as we love it we have been there for 15 years we look forward to our move and if you dont know next year the museum will not be 100 meters from here. Where across the mall in the plaza area in which case we actually will be able to have a new the new Museum Without having to go somewhere else. Its not going to happen for another year or so we used 2018 as our new museum and we will have the program before he do a grand opening around this time next year. Be on the lookout for that. You were given a program for this evening. Definitely take a look at it. Includes a communique for the offense we have at the museum. This is an example with the partnership of the news york times for the two events throughout the spring. Theres a lot of stuff going all the way through the end of march march. One of the highlights of the spring as a Development Event we are doing later this month with the former director of National Intelligence jim clapper who has been
Stations and cspan. Org cities to her. Youre watching cspan, all we can come every weekend. This is American History tv on cspan three. You can watch us every saturday and sunday, and holidays, too. Congress passed the 13th amendment formally abolishing slavery the United States on january 31, 1865. Next we discussed lincolns legacy in the 13th amendment 150 years later. The National Constitution center in philadelphia hosted this event. It is about one hour and a half. [applause] welcome to the National Constitution center. Im the president of this wonderful institution. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Thank you. Excellent. [laughter] weve party achieved our educational mission. In fact, we can all go home. We cant go home. We are launching a thrilling initiative. We are calling this the second founding here we are celebrating the 150th anniversary