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Attorney General Eric Holder took a swipe Wednesday at the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions.
During a diversity event at the Justice Department, Holder said some people "may believe that this country's long struggle to overcome disparity and discrimination has ended."
The court's 6-2 decision Tuesday stated that Michigan did not violate the Constitution when its voters banned affirmative action in higher education.
Holder - the nation's first black attorney general - cited Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor's "courageous and personal dissent" to the majority opinion in Tuesday's ruling.
"The reality is that, as you all know - and as many of you see in your work each day - this great country still has a way to go before our founding promise of equal justice and equal opportunity is fully realized," he said. "And progress will require not just open and honest dialogue, but a willingness to confront these difficult issues through principled action - to address and remediate the lingering impacts of racial discrimination."
First published April 23 2014, 9:50 AM
Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He has been covering the Justice Department and the U.S. Supreme Court since March 1993. Williams was also a key reporter on the Microsoft anti-trust trial and Judge Jackson's decision.
Prior to joining NBC, Williams served as a press official on Capitol Hill for many years. In 1986 he joined the Washington, D.C. staff of then Congressman Dick Cheney as press secretary and a legislative assistant. In 1989, when Cheney was named Assistant Secretary of Defense, Williams was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. While in that position, Williams was named Government Communicator of the Year in 1991 by the National Association of Government Communicators.
A native of Casper, Wyo. and a 1974 graduate of Stanford University, Williams was a reporter and news director at KTWO-TV and Radio in Casper from 1974 to 1985. Working with the Radio-Television News Directors Association, for which he served as a member of its board of directors, he successfully lobbied the Wyoming Supreme Court to permit broadcast coverage of its proceedings and twice sued Wyoming judges over pre-trial exclusion of reporters from the courtroom. For these efforts, he received a First Amendment Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
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