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Greg Stohr: Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
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Page 100, Clip 1: Mr. Kolbo draws skepticism from Justice O'Connor.
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Page 100, Clip 2: Kolbo responds in absolute terms to which O'Connor has a ready reply.
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Page 100, Clip 3: Justice Kennedy points to the inadequate number of minority lawyers, which he characterizes as "a broad social and political concern".
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Page 102, Clip 1: Justices Ginsburg and Stevens ask Kolbo about the importance of race-based admissions at the military academies.
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Page 102, Clip 2: Kolbo's legitimate but narrow response does not satisfy Justice Souter.
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Page 102, Clip 3: Justice Scalia throws Kolbo a life-line.
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Page 103, Clip 1: Kennedy expresses concern that Kolbo's argument might curb efforts to recruit minority applicants for the military academies.
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Page 103, Clip 2: Kolbo assents to Ginsburg's suggestion that only minority students be given the benefit of scholarships for preparatory schools.
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Page 103, Clip 3: Scalia intervenes again to clarify that Kolbo was not conceding the permissibility of minority-only preparatory scholarships.
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Page 104, Clip 1: Solicitor General Olson waffles on the subject of the military academies.
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Page 104, Clip 2: Olson hedges when Kennedy inquires whether diversity is a "compelling interest".
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Page 105, Clip 1: Ms Mahoney addresses Kennedy clearly implying that the government has not abandoned years of support for diversity and that the courts should follow suit.
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Page 106, Clip 1: Chief Justice Rehnquist poses a hypothetical question that harkens back to the precedent-setting Bakke case.
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Page 106, Clip 2: Kennedy questions whether the Michigan program is a disguised quota prompting a well-prepared response from Mahoney.
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Page 106, Clip 3: Scalia returns to the quota question.
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Page 107, Clip 1: Scalia presses his position in the session's feistiness exchange.
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Page 107, Clip 2: O'Connor questions the absence of a fixed expiration date for the Michigan program.
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Page 107, Clip 3: Mahoney implicitly accepts O'Connor's premise regarding the temporary nature of affirmative action programs.
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Page 108, Clip 1: O'Connor pursues the practical implications of such programs and Mahoney obliges although outside the record of the case at hand.
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Page 108, Clip 2: Kennedy returns to the quota issue.
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Page 108, Clip 3: Justice Stevens lobs Mahoney a friendly question regarding racial hostility resulting from affirmative action programs.
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Page 108, Clip 4: Justice Breyer tosses a softball query regarding programs that go "too far".
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Page 108, Clip 5: Ginsburg inquires about Barbara Grutter's chances for admission.
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Page 108, Clip 6: Scalia gets the last word, consuming a third of Mahoney's allotted time with his queries.
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Page 109, Clip 1: In an aside, Ginsburg and Souter give Mahoney high marks following the conclusion of her argument.
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