he s lost all credibility. after the supreme court 6-3 decision striking down the use of racial preferences in college admissions biden was sent out by whoever winds him up to lie. affirmative action is so misunderstood. many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows unqualified students, unqualified students to be admitted ahead of qualified students. this is not, this is not how college admissions work. laura: the white house people aren t that ignorant. they know the truth, that the entire point of racial preferences is to give minority candidates an edge. regardless of their test scores or their transcripts or their resume, it s classic discrimination and it s based on race. colleges set out standards for admission and every student, every student has to meet those standards. then and only then, after first meeting the qualifications required by the school, do colleges look at other factors in addition to their grades such as race. laura: okay. what s
Concurrent in the case was an absolute tour de force. the best piece of legal analyst and writing that i think i have ever read. he went right at the university s reliance on racial box checking in admissions. you have to read it. all racial categories, he wrote, are a little more than stereotypes suggesting that immutable characteristics somehow conclusively determine a person s ideology, beliefs, and abilities. of course, that s false. members of the same race do not all share the exact same experiences and viewpoints. far from it. a black person from rural alabama surely has different experiences than a black person from manhattan or a black first generation i am immigrant from nigeria, in the same that a white person from rural vermont has a different perspective than a white person from houston, texas. yet universities racial policies suggest that racial identity alone constitutes the being of the race or the man. that s the same naked racism
Jam job is the exact word. so here s a bit of reporting from gabe sherman at vanity fair. things resolution in tumult at the white house. two republicans in regular contact with the white house there have been talks trump could replace jeff sessions with epa administrator scott pruitt who would not be recused from overseeing the russia probe. your reaction to that in. would that be the classic trump move? for sessions to oust mccabe absolutely cementing his reputation as loathed within the department and then reward him by firing him as he had done say to mitt romney or chris christie. it would put on display so many of the characteristic called qualities of the president. and pruett has proven himself to be an absolute water carrier for the president. it would be an absolute tour de force. you wouldn t think things could get much lower an the department of justice.
Be an absolute water carrier for the president. it would be an absolute tour de force. you wouldn t think things could get much lower an the department of justice. this would be the test of that. we have watched the president in the open attempt to subvert the independence of the department of justice at every turn from firing comey and telling him to let flynn go to berating the attorney general to telling his white house council to fire mueller and direct mueller to be fired, berating rod rosenstein. he has not been it appears not been successful particularly, not gotten rid of mueller, but the question is how long that wall holds up. right. and have some bricks already fallen. you re right. some of the big signature items he wants to achieve still are left undone. but you know, a 40-year career