A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. There has to be some discrimination here. There has to be something against Asian Americans specifically. This case is going to be something more than just about admissions. The notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating for a number of areas of the law. An
[crowd murmuring] - a crucial supreme court ruling on affirmative action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. - the central question being decided this time: is should affirmative action continue forever in the name of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on asian american students? this is the most important civil rights case of our era. i don t think it s an overstatement to say they re freaking out right now. one admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that they re thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. there has to be some discrimination here. there has to be something against asian americans specifically. this case is going to be something more than just about admissions. the notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating
including the nation meeting its new speaker from the house from the very real questions facing the real mike johnson to the saturday night live debut what you see there in a mock meeting with president biden for halloween. we have more on that and a special guest on that longtime biden chief of staff, ron clain is here and it s the first time on the program since leaving the white house and also later tonight, a report from the middle east, but our top story right now is a new procedural victory for doj prosecutor jack smith and the legal loss for defendant donald trump who got in trouble for his own recent aide turned dishing doj mark meadows. they re-gagged trump and that s a technical legal way to put it. you may have heard about this, i ll walk you through it right now. basically late sunday the federal judge overseeing that open coup case reinstated a partial gag order that bars defendant trump from attacking witnesses and others and that order had been on hold basica
guantanamo, the president didn t make good at his promise. but i won t be alone at guantanamo covering hearings when they get to what the military calls the case in chief, the trial. when they start talking about what happened on september 11th, every reporter slot will be full down there this is the early part. i understand that it s frustrating to people, thank it s taken so long. they didn t capture these men and take them straight to a court. they took them to the ci a black sites for three and four years, where they interrogated them. these men who are on trial now, they were captured in 2002 and 2003. they didn t get to guantanamo until 2006 and then and then they needed to actually create the law to have this new kind of court. a new kind of court means a lot of pretrial proceedings. yes, you know, and carol, in fairness, it is incredibly legalistically thorny thing happening down there all the
answer you on that on that note, the speed or lack thereof with which these men are seeing trial is staggering. the average wait time between a federal court around military commission, 1.5 years the average wait time for a federal court trial. military commissions take up to 7.6 years. i mean, given that, given that and given the difficulty at hand in terms of letting some of these guys go who have not been charged with anything, i mean, are we any closer to closing this? we talked about camp 7, which you ve written about extensively. this was intended to be temporary structure. they are gonna have to make repairs to it because it doesn t look like it s going to close any time soon. it s absolutely not gonna close any time soon. last week, they took a guilty plea from a man who is going to spend four more years in custody, presumably at guantanamo. after that, he gets to go back to saudi arabia. four more years, there will be a new president. if that man is still at