loif. again. the justices say affirmative action is wrong. the conservative majority s ruling will change how college admissions decisions are made everywhere. plus personal and pointed. the two black justices on the bench use their opinions to litigate a fight over the role of race in american society. and the ruling is making waves already on the 2024 campaign trail. president trump calls it a great day for america. president biden set to speak in minutes from the white house. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. the supreme court undoes decades of law and precedent. the justices today ruled to gut affirmative action, and it will scramble how colleges pick and choose who gets into their schools. it will also likely force students, especially black and brown students torks rethink where they even apply for college. i want to get straugt to jessica snider in washington. so jessica, this is a major, major ruling. it is. and at this point,
college. i want to get straugt to jessica snider in washington. so jessica, this is a major, major ruling. it is. and at this point, colleges and universities are likely scouring this lengthy decision because they have to restructure their a admissions policies. this supreme court is saying they can no longer rely on race, nor can they specifically factor race into anne eadmissions decision. but at the psalm time, they are saying they are not prohibiting applicants from discussing their race in etc. cays and discussing how their race affected or impacted their lives. so the take away is students won t be able to check a box indicating their race. they can make admissions officials aware of their race in a broader context. in justice jackson s descent, she s saying different. it s like putting lipstick on a pig. she and the other liberals
another 2024 presidential candidate. cornel west, green party candidate and former professor of public plos if i. thank you so much for joining me. i want to read part of what justice roth betters wrote. he wrote, quote, indifference to race is the only constitutionally permissible means to achieve racial equality in college eadmissions. you are a graduate of harvard. you taught there for many years. what s your response? it s a very sad day. justice roberts is so absolutely wrong. this decision, let s be clear, it s an attack on black people. the question of what do you do with the vicious legacy of u supremacy where they justified jim crow for another 100 years. and in the 60s, we had to raise the question. what are you going to do about
in america for broadly. thomas has a part of his concurrence about the idea of 17-year-old of today paying for the sins of past years. obviously, a nod to a conversation about critical race theory. but the the question they were trying to ask here is was can you use race to course correct the desperate treatment that racism created over the course of our history. that was the fund the the notion of what they are being asked. it s been chipped away for years and years and years. but ultimately the majority decided that race can only be solved by ignoring what is so evident in every aspect of our lives. the opinion that was so eloquent in the confrontation of this disingenuous discussion that suggests that we can on the one hand tell universities how to deal with the subjective process of applications and then never give the criteria to do so. how are you as an admissions
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