politicsnation. today from essence festival in new orleans. tonight s lead, justice not served. less than a week after the nation marked the first anniversary of roe s reversal, our conservative majority supreme court handed down a series of regressive decisions. collectively ruling against young and vulnerable people in a diversifying nation. on affirmative action, decades of transformative tools for underrepresented, specifically black kids seeking a higher education. the court left them to their own devices. on president biden s plan to apply a modest relief to suffering student borrowers, the court ruled that the administration had overstepped its bounds. and on lgbtq rights, the court insisted that the right to deny business on religious grounds can be protected as freedom of speech. president biden yesterday after days of responding to these judicial attacks on social progress, laid the blame for this week s decision at the feet of conservative lawmakers and the justice
was shot and killed by police earlier this week. the teenager of north african descent was pulled over on tuesday, and shortly after the officers approached the young driver s window, he starts to pull away. that s when an officer fired his weapon. the officer says he shot the gun because he thought the teen would try to run someone over. that officer has now been charged with voluntarily homicide. the incident has sparked massive unrest for the last four days across france, as people call for justice. according to france s interior ministry, so far more than 1300 people have been arrested across the country. although france and the u.s. have very different histories, the racial dynamics of this incident drums up some familiar themes such as police brutality, anti immigration sentiment, and long-standing social problems