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,
the last scheduled decision day of the term, we could finally get some answers on some massive undecided cases. rulings on affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, and lgbtq+ rights among others. decisions that could impact all of us, and they could come down at any minute, and we have a full lineup of guests and experts on this. i want to begin with nbc news correspondent julia ainsley who s standing by at the supreme court for us. julia, set the scene there, how might this go down? reporter: well, you re right, this is the last scheduled day, ana, but we re expecting another day possibly to get on the court s schedule for tomorrow. that would leave just two days left in june when they typically wrap up their term, and they have these three huge decisions left. so doing the math, we expect at least one of those big decisions to come today, either when it comes to religious rights versus free speech, religious rights and lgbt rights. of course affirmative action, and h
the question at the center of the case in this day and age should colleges consider race when deciding who gets in and who doesn t? i m harris faulkner. john wang is at the center of this mom he says it is hurting asian-americans in particular. wang graduated high school with a 4.65 gpa and scored 1590 out of 1600 on s.a.t. six top colleges denied him entrance. i got an 800 out of # hundred on math. 99th percentile. i got a 790th out of 800. the top tier schools were mit, princeton, harvard, carnegie-mellon. they all told me it is tougher to get in especially as an asian-american. i took it as gospel. harris: a new op-ed says we better brace for impact on this one. whatever the decision is, it s bound to make waves just as with the overturning of roe v. wade. this could potentially lead to another summer marked by social unrest with defenders of race-based admissions pulling out the long knives for the u.s. supreme court. calling it inherently racist, end of quote. our
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Flames pouring out of a home in San Francisco, where a couple was pulled to safety. Tonight, the family is shaken up, but grateful to be alive. Im glad that me and my wife are safe. And the dogs . Two. I was just close to losing my mom and my dad. Tonight, seven adults now displays following that devastating fire right near San Franciscos alamo square. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im julie julie haener. One of those adults is a San Francisco dog walker who has been the target of racist incidents over the past few weeks. New at ten tonight, ktvu is amber lee joins us now. Shes live in San Francisco. And amber, an emotional and challenging time for this family. No doubt. Julie. Now terry williams, the dog walker, tells me his parents are okay. But take a look behind me. You can see that the home which the family has owned for more than five decades was destroyed and red tagged by the city. The family plans to rebuild. Citizen video shows a fire break out at this three story