i don t agree. this this after a group of asian-american students filed complaint against harvard and the university of north carolinaa hill, alleging that ta they failed to employ racet neutral admissions practices. now the majority opinion delivered, chief justice john roberts said that any studenn t, quote, must be treat based on his or her experiencebs . an individual not on the basis of race, highlighting the importance of this case in a rare move. noarw justices clarence thomas d and sonia sotomayor also and actually read their opinions from the bench now, with justice thomas declaring, quote, at alnow l forms discrimination based on race, including so-called action, areo prohibited under the u.s. co. titutionhi now, a harvard did, in fact, release a statement following the decision acknowledging that the court ruled their admissions policies did not comply with the 14th amendment, the equal protection clause in the constitution and the civil rights act. but harvar la
on scene or close to being on scene. retired us navy captain armon joins us with the latest on search and rescue but first to matt finn on how crews are working to find the source of underwater noises that have been detectd the. matt good evening. good evening trace. the u.s. coast guard says a canadian surveillance plane picked up some type of underwater sounds yesterday and again today. but a coast guard captain says they cannot confirm reports that those sounds were happening in 30-minute intervals and also could not confirm those sounds were banging or tapping. the coast guard captain says the recordings were turned over to the u.s. navy for analysis and underwater robots were sent to the area where those sounds came from. an ocean science expert, who s assisting the coast guard said the noises sound like banging but could have come from various sources including a nearby ship. tonight some of the world s best data analysts are determining whether the sounds might have
support. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. monday america celebrates the third ever federal holiday of juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans. as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college admissions. does that mean it achieved its purpose or we re abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we ll soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is that race-conscious admissions will end. currently race is permitted to be a factor, meaning one factor among many to be considered as schools seek to create a diverse student body. kwoet quote teas, however, are unconstitutional. that s the bottom line after the supreme court has taken up several cases involve ing affirmative action over time. justice sandra day o connor wrote we expect 25 years from now the us
and this is dateline. i can t believe that their baby is lying there lifeless. she was everything to me. she was so sweet everybody. state troopers said bonnie had died in a hiking accident. the said she fell off a cliff. her mother said, they were wrong. i was screaming to them, these are defensive wounds. no witnesses, no weapon. nothing left behind by a stranger s dna. we no longer have some accidental death. this was a homicide. they had no suspect. but for years, her mother kept fighting to find bonnie s killer. bonnie s mother continues her own crusade. then after more than a decade of searching, a phone call. i just got information, there was a match. can we get a conviction on just the dna? and there was something else. something about bonnie herself. it was almost like she knew something hello, and welcome to dateline. we often see headlines about dna evidence exonerating the innocent. it seems we hear less about how dna from an unknow
juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans, and as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is that the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college administrations. does that mean that it achieved its purpose or that we re abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we will soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is that race conscious administrations will end. currently race is permitted to be a factor in the administrations calculus, meaning one factor among many to be considered as schools seek to create a diverse student body for everybody s benefit. quotas on the other hand, are unconstitutional. that s the bottom line after the supreme court has taken up several major cases involving affirmative action over the years. and one of those cases was in 2003, it was grutter versus bollinger, involved the