Former President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Sherrilyn Ifill discusses why she decided to step down from her position at the nonprofit organization, why she considers the U.S. to be a "teenage" democracy, and how the current Supreme Court affirmative action case is different from previous ones.

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