gearing up for an historic trip to europe meant to strengthen american leadership overseas. after a week spend touting the administration s command of the economic situation here at home. yesterday the labor department announced 209,000 jobs were added in july. the white house touted he number as a sign of bidenomics inaction. alongside consumer-focused efforts to reduce jump fees and health care costs. and democrats and their allies are mobilizing in the wake of last week s rulings from the conservative dominated supreme court. with race based affirmative action band, legislators and lawyers are taking aim at so-called legacy admissions. we talk to one group suing harvard university for what some call affirmative action for the rich. in the meantime, it was a bloody-long independence weekend, as mass shootings rocked cities from coast to coast. kansas city mayor quentin once better law enforcement, but also tighter gun restrictions. he will join us shortly. and later you a
in this case the supreme court drew a clear line and said yes to religious liberty. and that donald trump south carolina rally this weekend wasn t the former president getting all the attention. we ll tell you about a republican stalwart which was booed off the stage. we ll have more on that. and anyone about lamar s italy officials are instructed to give us an update on the mass shooting overnight in baltimore. two people were killed. 28 more were hurt. nbc s marissa perez there in baltimore were also joined by former fbi supervisor rob d amico. marissa wiley standby here for this update. please bring us up to speed to what we know so far? yes, where things stand at last check, we re waiting for an update any minute now. these details could be subject to change hopefully we ll learn more soon. but here is what we know right now. at least 30 victims, to people, that they were adults but they were young. an 18 year old, a 20 year old, and among the injuries we had a 28 wer
and i think that across the board, the vast majority of the american people don t agree with a lot of the decisions the courts are making. president biden in an exclusive interview with my colleague, nicolle wallace, responding to today s very predictable supreme court decision on affirmative action. and that is where we begin tonight, with the united states supreme court once again turning the arc of justice away from equality and back to the early 20th century. striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. the roberts court, which wouldn t even look like the court it is today without affirmative action, decided that race conscious admissions programs at harvard university and the university of north carolina violate equal protection under the constitution. it is fitting then that it would be the court s first black woman justice, ketanji brown jackson, who clearly articulated the cost of this latest regression. writing in her dissent, with let them
admissions. it is a complete misnomer to suggest this is about color brined blind when in fact it is about being blind to history. tonight, the ruling, the powerful descent, and how clarence thomas finally won his long battle against affirmative action. n hi long did you give your degree back again? yale does not recognize me. [laughter] as the special counsel ramps up on the january 6th investigation that is what jack smith is going in for, absolutely, this is it, this is the big show. what we are learning today about new subpoenas in the documents case. i get everything right and they indicted me. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today in a landmark ruling that overturns decades of precedents, sweeping aside generations of arguments about racial justice and equality, the supreme court in a 6 to 3 decision, six conservatives to three liberals, effectively got rid of the use of race in college admissions a
want to mess. all of that and more is coming up. in the good sunday morning to. you i am katie phang. as the saying goes, those who don t know history are destined to repeat. it s now this juncture after this conservative super majority on the supreme court got affirmative action in higher education instruct down where is it biden s plan to forgive more than 400 billion dollars in student debt, i think it is time that we talk about how those two things have been leaked for decades. higher education in america did not always come with such a hefty price tag. in fact through the 1950s it was largely free and treated as a public goods. why? because graduates used their education towards the betterment of society. that all changed in the 1960s when anti-war and civil rights students activism hit college campuses and universities. and those colleges and universities responded by developing of hidden action policies to diversify their overall on the right student body. southern cal