Colleges. They can ask the board of trustees. They can ask the admissions office. They can go to the legislature or seek a constitutional amendment. But minority groups, the only way they can get a preference enacted is to teamed states constitution and that violates this by depriving them of the same way to influence state policy that other groups have. When that case so the case is not one that i it deals with affirmative action and whether a state can abolish affirmative action on a statewide basis. Its interesting in a number of ways because it says that a measure that on its face is completely race neutral. It says no one should receive any preference or detriment based on race is unconstitutional because it prohibits some people from seeking a preference based on race. And again, as allison said, we cant ever be sure what the Supreme Court is going to do but it seems that the opponents of proposal two, in other words the coalition of affirmative action has an uphill climb to pers
A resignation. I heard theirs is extraordinary level of government even by extraordinary standards. They have resignation demands by dozens of republican law americas in a statement in prepared testimony ahead of the hearing accept bell why yo sebe not lived up to the expectation of the American People and is not ak acceptedable. We are committed to ficcing the problems as soon as possible. Owe b we will hear updates on the aggressive work being done to improve the federal layout. Patti ann, ainsley, back to you. Thank you so much. Elizabeth prann live for us in washington this morning. We asked you on twitter and facebook what do you think they will be asking Kathleen Sebelius. Penny said why didnt you contact ebay, et cetera to ask their web die signers to bid . Are you planning to return all of the money wasted on this rollout . Also stan asking why did you ignore the project manager hes this web site project when they told you the site wasnt ready. Who made the decision to launch a
First, we are in ocean city, maryland, with the latest. Kristen, it looks beautiful behind you but folks are not allowed in the water . Folks are stilt not allowed in the water. We have very strong rip currents, some rough sub, heavy winds but that is all that is left, or all we can feel of hermine here in ocean city. The beach, the water, exactly showing no damage or flooding or injuries. A few fisher men were rescued last night off of a commercial vessel. But so far association good. Folks are enjoying ocean city over the weekend because a lot of the local businesses were worried their business would be hurt on what is supposed to be busiest weekend of the entire year so i have charlie, and the team of pictures, the folks out here taking pictures of family on voix through the summer. Has your business been hit . We are worried we got here on friday saw the forecast, stressing a little bit but as certain as i woke up, life was very, very good. So we got out there, we ran around. [ ina
And thanks for joining us for the second hour of 360 tonight. President trump is focussing on the size of the crowd at his inauguration yesterday. Well have more on that. But we begin with different crowds, the ones protesting mr. Trump. They were bigger than the organizers expected. This is the womens march in washington. It is a scene that played out in cities around the country, los angeles, new york, chicago, many cities inbetween. In denver, memphis, nashville, hundreds and hundreds of cities, people gathered, rallied and marched for unity. It wasnt just in the United States. We will not be silent. They flooded the streets, young and old, women and men. From berlin to barcelona, sydney to mexico city protesting the politics of americas new president and urging him not to turn harsh rhetoric into reality. It was a sad day yesterday. I was at Barack Obamas inauguration eight years ago, and yesterday was just a completely different feel. And i dont want that for my daughters. I want