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🗓️ 31 August 2018
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0:00.0 | The Daily 202's Big Idea is sponsored by Cleveland Clinic, |
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0:15.0 | Good morning. |
0:18.0 | I'm James Holman from the Washington Post |
0:20.0 | and this is the Daily 202 for Friday August 31st. |
0:25.0 | In today's news, the Trump administration is canceling funding for a program that |
0:31.0 | benefits Palestinian refugees. |
0:34.0 | Trump proposes a pay freeze for all federal employees, |
0:38.0 | and the president says he won't oust Jeff Sessions |
0:41.0 | until after the midterm elections. |
0:47.6 | But first, the big idea. |
0:50.8 | In 1999, a conservative legal activist named Brett Kavanaugh said he believed it was inevitable |
0:58.0 | that the Supreme Court within the next 10 to 20 years would conclude that we are all one race in the eyes of the |
1:06.2 | government. 19 years later as Kavanaugh prepares for his confirmation hearing |
1:11.7 | next week to join the Supreme Court. |
1:14.3 | The Trump administration formally weighed in Thursday to support a pending lawsuit against |
1:19.8 | Harvard University that could possibly end affirmative action as we know it, and perhaps even |
1:26.0 | give Kavanaugh the chance to make his own prophecy a reality. |
1:32.0 | Because he's the nominee to replace the now retired Anthony Kennedy, reality. Evidence of Kavanaugh's past skepticism toward affirmative action is being studied closely, and it's giving heartburn to civil rights advocates. During a speech just last year at Notre Dame Law School, Kavanaugh discussed how hard it is for a judge |
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