designed to create diverse student bodies at our countries colleges and universities. we re going to talk about why that ruling is so much better than just a college admission process. plus, the conservative-leaning court also presided president biden s debt forgiveness plan was unlawful, which means payments will default again soon. we are talking to biden s domestic policy chief about what the president can do to still give americans some form of relief for their student loan debt and much more. and when it comes to this idea of color blindness the conservatives want you to believe is their way of not seeing race as a factor in legislation or policymaking. well, i say they are lying. i ll explain why later this hour. i am symone sanders-townsend, folks, live from new orleans, today. hey essence. and i have got something to say. elections have consequences, and supreme court rulings have ramifications. millions of americans will soon feel the consequences of this n
their lives worse. americans voiced that opposition as protests continued across the country today. protesters demanding the federal government step up and act. congressional democrats constrained by slim majorities and the filibuster seem to be passing the buck over to the president. on saturday, 34 senate democrats signed urging president biden invited to take immediately bold action and, quote, use the full force of the federal government to protect abortion rights. more on that in just a moment. now to state the obvious, this decision was not exactly a surprise. back in may, political obtained leaked draft of the courts opinion signaling the very outcome. not much changed from a draft to june s majority opinion. but the decision did offer us a first look at the other side of the dissent. in a scathing rebuke, the courts three liberal justices of said the decision stripped women of their status as free and equal citizens. justice breyer, so to my and kagan warned that no o
that s with 52% of americans call the supreme court s reversal of roe v. wade and the new cbs poll released just this morning. 56% of women say will make their lives worse. americans voiced that opposition as protests continued across the country today. protesters demanding the federal government step up and act. congressional democrats constrained by slim majorities and the filibuster seem to be passing the buck over to the president. on saturday, 34 senate democrats signed urging president biden invited to take immediately bold action and, quote, use the full force of the federal government to protect abortion rights. more on that in just a moment. now to state the obvious, this decision was not exactly a surprise. back in may, political obtained leaked draft of the courts opinion signaling the very outcome. not much changed from a draft to june s majority opinion. but the decision did offer us a first look at the other side of the dissent. in a scathing rebuke, the courts
of our democracy. i think this is a very hard issue to balance. and so, i don t forestall the option that there would be steps to be taken down the road. but i have to say clearly, the president s view is that this time, there are grave consequences to weakening a judiciary, that is an important part of democracy going forward. and so, there is an issue that we all have to balance. and he believes that the best option would be for the court itself to recognize that when it a pence precedent as it did in its decision on affirmative action 45 years of precedent, it weakens itself in the eyes of the country. before i let you go, neera, one of the other things that supreme court weighed in on this week was again this hypothetical made up case of a web designer. and i did not know that the court trafficked in hypotheticals. in the wake of that ruling, what will the white house be doing to inflate lgbtq+ folks
now, what you just heard were three conservative, now supreme court justices, during confirmation hearings. and they were speaking of the importance of precedent. precedent is a principle or will establish in a prior supreme court decision. and it is something that justices have historically used as a guide before issuing their own rulings in similar cases. so, the decision to overturn precedence is never, or should never be taken lightly. but with the reversal of roe v. wade, planned parenthood versus casey, and the most recent banning of race conscious college admissions practices, we are seeing a court of north by the justice of its predecessors. six consecutive justices appear to be standing, ready to abandon long-standing precedent and the will of the people the court claims to serve. here now to discuss, if i got that right, and the impact of these rulings are paul butler.