Thank you calling and without further ado i thought id pose a question first to the judge alternating between the joint and biographer. Mister posner, when you were the age of some of these people as an undergraduate at yale, but biography tells us you are a fabulous yates scholar, interested in literature. What made you decide to go to law school . Law school is always the default graduate choice for any college graduate. And my father was a lawyer and he gave some thought to going to graduate school in english but decided it was not for me so i dont think i consideredanything else. Harvard law school seemed to have a permanent impression on you isuppose, seemed to change and launch your trajectory in many ways. Can you tell us about the Academic Experience there . Well, it was mixed. But they did something clever. They did attrition in their first year of law school so that was very good. I got a good start. And second and third years were not as interesting. Like the professors, i r
Bottom line. We have a very real choice. We will continue to implement programs already in place. We cannot forward with expanded programs we wanted to move forward on because the Supreme Court was not able to issue a ruling of this stage. And now we have got a choice about where we are going to be as a country, what we want to teach our kids, how we want to be represented in congress and the white house. ,harlie an important decision the Supreme Court also ruled on affirmative action, upholding a race Conscious Program used by the university of texas at austin. Joining me now from washington, adam liptak. He the Supreme Court correspondent for the new york times. But talk about immigration first. Adam it is a big blow to overhaul the Immigration Program , to spare as many as 5 Million People from deportation and allow them to work. The effect of this 44 tie was to leave in place a federal Appeals Court decision that blocks the program and effectively ends any chances of reviving the p
Programs already in place. We cannot forward with expanded programs we wanted to move forward on because the Supreme Court was not able to issue a ruling of this stage. And now we have got a choice about where we are going to be as a country, what we want to teach our kids, how we want to be represented in congress and the white house. Charlie an important decision, the Supreme Court also ruled on affirmative action, upholding a raceconscious program used by the university of texas at austin. Joining me now from washington, adam liptak. He the Supreme Court correspondent for the new york times. But talk about immigration first. Adam it is a big blow to overhaul the immigration program, to spare as many as five Million People from deportation and allow them to work. The effect of this 44 tie was to leave in place a federal Appeals Court decision that blocks the program and effectively ends any chances of reviving the program while president obama is in office and raises real question ab
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