The court struck down the policy at issue, which, in louisville, had been adopted, a policy, adopted after the School System was no longer officially under court order, by consensus, large consensus of the community, it wanted to continue with its Integration Program in schools. It was considered a Model Community for integration. The court said that the principles established in the affirmative action cases regarding diversity really dont apply in the k12 context and context. And then, as you mentioned, there is the continuing controversy over affirmative action. The court is going to hear the fisher case again. Tomiko it will rule on the merits and it doesnt look good to proponents of affirmative action. And it may not be a sleeping a sweeping holding but the nature of the conversation at the court is having is really goes back to that word of judicial supremacy. The court, in the affirmative action context, is saying that it is to be satisfied that there arent alternatives to these
Not close. And four years later in an environment that is more hostile, kay hagan comes pretty close to winning a senate seat despite 125 million being spent, and she did that in large part because we turned out tens of thousands of more of the most disenfranchised people in the country in a state where republicans shortened the early vote period from two weeks to one week and eliminated a lot of the easilyaccessible voting sites for africanamericans and for young people. Thats the lesson that democrats have to take. Theres no question there are a lot of disappointed democrats and my message to them is take a few days, have a drink or two, get a little bit of rest, pick yourself back up because theres an election in two years and thats what we should be looking at over the next couple of months for what is going to definitely be another election cycle. The one candidate for president to did go to campaign with gary peters is the senator elect. What is next for you . I think i have four
A factor s it is not at all. Our line for 81 republicans know if you nt to think pres. Obama is a factor in your midterm vote, reach us on our facebook page. Him not a considering it was 45 of those responding. For those who did factor it was 32 responding. Those figures drastically different from also the folks from pew looked at how people would use their midterm vote. In 2010 56 of republicans vote they would use their and that he president figure in 2014 was 61 of did a dents. Usa today story yesterday about what the is what s found. Here they wrote. Half of likely voters say the president is not their vote for congress. But amongst those who call obama factor by two to one would vote for him. When it comes to your midterm vote we are interested in hearing from you as to whether the president is a would and if so how you use your vote. Again at the numbers are on the screen. Wanted to let you know about our Newsmakers Program because is an expanded version, a 45 minute discussion w
Im from new york and im a heathen from television. But in 1973 i was a young correspondent assigned to cover the white house and water gate and modestly i thought i brought with me a pretty good reputation as a political reporter in california. I had covered the rise of ronald reagan. In 1968 Eugene Mccarthy and Bobby Kennedy, the night that Bobby Kennedy was killed is seared in my memory, chicago and cesar chavez, the antiwar movement, the nixon fundraising apparatus. But in washington there was a lot of except six about whether i was skepticism about whether i was up for the job. After a month of being on the white house lawn morning, noon and night, ben bradlee who i barely knew put his arm around me and said, kid, you know what youre doing. It was began a great friendship. It was only deepened when he maried my friend sally. They had quinn. It was a privilege. I had been thinking about the words that had been written and spoken about been in the past couple weeks, including mine. T
Republicans expanded their majority in the house of representatives. This is 15 minutes. I missed you all. That is what the president said yesterday. He did . I hope you did not believe it. Never do. [laughter] good. Im going to start by congratulating my friend, senator Mitch Mcconnell. As you know, mitch and i have worked very closely together over the last eight years and i dont think i could ask for a better partner or do i think the senate could have a better majority leader than Mitch Mcconnell. Also, i express my gratitude to the people of ohios eighth congressional district. You know, my mission is the same today as it was in 1990 when i was first elected to build a smaller, less costly, more Accountable Government here in washington, d. C. And right now i believe that means continuing to listen, to make the American Peoples priorities our priorities and to confront the big challenges that face middle class families starting with the economy. You have heard me talk many times a