Outcome of the election now hinges on 4 battleground states where mainly postal votes are being tied to and in other news the u. N. Calls for i mean media deescalation intentions that ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into the tikrit region following at an auction on a military base the way. To. So democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump narrowly won 4 years ago biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes ron donald trump has 214 hour remember the magic number to become president is to 70 here in yellow youll see the states still in play nevada in the west and georgia and North Carolina in the south and up here pennsylvania donald trump has launched legal action in several states to stop votes being counted. Lets look at georgia firsts an extremely close race ted Donald Trumps initial lead has been steadily falling most of the remaining votes are from atl
We hear arguments number 18, roe against wade. Quite often our most famous decisions are the ones the court took that are quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically have vielgsy what it means to live in society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans new series landmark cases. Tonight and the next 11 weeks were going to be looking at cases that developing the development. Its also interesting because it all came about after two Founding Fathers who developed differing views how the country should be governed. We have guests to help us understand the story. A Yale University luprofoaw pro and hes the author of several books including americas constitution, a biography. To start were going to listen to the current chief justice talking about the importance of this case. And then after we hear his point of view well like to hear from both of you on why this case is
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Be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. That is what happened to Abigail Fisher. It is not disputed. She was treated differently because of her race and color and national origin. Now, we are not going to be talking so much about title vi my when we talk about the constitution. The Supreme Court said it doesnt really mean what it says. We just think it means what the constitution means. Constitution has a little bit more wiggle room. Although knobloch or the constitution guarantees equal protection of the law, and the outlaws the whole purpose of it the 14th amendment was to outlaw racial standards. That seems pretty straightforward. There was an act of 1981 that been Racial Discrimination, including in regards to college tuition. It sounds pretty straightforward. Think of those things not mean what they say. There is an exception in this area. You would think, well, gee, it would be an exception. It would be an exception to
James meredith at the university of ol miss. I like to pick out subjects that i feel have a lot on like to pick out these subjects that i feel have a lot of resonance to our cultural history, biography. Paul hendricksons most recent work, hemingways bonet is the name of the book. Thank you for joining us on booktv. Thank you for having me. Sander and Stuart Taylor talk about affirmative action, oral arguments in fisher versus university of texas. They agreed with the initial goals of affirmative action. That now believe it hurts the minorities. This is about an hour and a half. Thank you very much. Thank you for roger and cato for sponsoring this event, it is great to have such a great kickoff to the book which is being officially published today. I am going to start and talk a little bit about the central idea itself and some of what we found in the book. I will try to relate this more to what is happening tomorrow. I am particularly glad to be doing this at cato because it stood for