supreme court being now felt across the country. this weekend, the conservative leaning high court, dealing a blow to lgbtq rights, while also striking down affirmative action at colleges, as well as killing president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. so, as a result, young americans telling msnbc, their faith in the court is shaken. i don t have a lot of confidence in the supreme court right now. i felt that for quite some time. it s just, all of it is infuriating in that the supreme court will just decide, well, yeah, this does not work and, you know, just no regard for the actual lived experience of people and what this is going to do to people. i am livid. meanwhile, a trump supporter who stormed the capitol on january 6th had two guns and 400 rounds of ammo in his van when he was arrested near former president barack obama s home. nbc news reports, taylor toronto showed up at obama s residence thursday, after former president trump posted screenshots on his tr
be controversial. it should be done in one voice. sadly, it has become political. we have to end this. what happened to paul pelosi s despicable, unacceptable. unfortunately, it has become a more dangerous place me have to do everything we can to lower the rhetoric, have a civil conversation but make sure people are safe. we are counting down to midterms, now just nine days away. we are looking at the biggest issues driving people to the polls. a new abc abscess poll shows the economy, inflation, and abortion as the top three concerns, respectively. today the chairs of both republican and democratic campaign committees gave their message to voters. exploding cost of living, a crime wave in our major cities that is the result of this defund the police nonsense. those are the issues that are top of mind for every voter in this country, that is why they are going to show up on november 8th. that is why democrats a republicans are going to win in the midterms. we will pla
home. they will not go forward in starting a family. they will not engage in transportation. they will not invest in our stock market, you know? these are the things that make the american economy thrive and great for all people. but unfortunately, we do not have an economy that works for all people, and that s the problem. there was another big one this week with the supreme court striking down affirmative action programs. this at the university of clark carolina, as well as at harvard. the court ruled that both programs violate the constitution s equal protection clause. in her u.n.c. case dissent, justice ketanji brown jackson said, beaming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life do you, sir, trust the colleges will continue to offer educational opportunity to a racially diverse student body? and what happens if many don t? i don t because explicit racism and implicit bias still exist throughout all aspects of
they will take that opportunity to end affirmative action, which is something political conservatives have been wanting to do for a long time. if we set aside cynicism a little bit and think about the law issues here, especially for viewers who may be tuning in tomorrow, since we can listen to the oral arguments life, i think one thing to listen for is going to be a lot of discussion of title six of the civil rights act of 1964. the way the law changed after brown v. board of education. whether that still means the same thing as the constitution s equal protection clause. the equal protection clause allows the government to discriminate based on race under rare circumstances, where the state has a compelling interest and there is no less intrusive way of achieving that interest. the civil rights act title six says recipients of federal funding, like colleges are, cannot discriminate on the basis of race. since 1978, when the first court first said the week
that affirmative action is permissible, the courts have said those two things mean the same thing. title six means the same thing, they have the equal protection clause, if there s a compelling state interest and there is no intrusive way of doing it, that s okay. they are four, title six allows affirmative action. i think the new conservative majority, the more textural, ideological approach to interpreting things, is going to take a second look at that and may say, no, title six flatly prohibits discrimination based on race by recipients of federal funding. there is no balancing. but that case, maybe it s more restrictive. that will be their justification used to end affirmative action. do you agree with that, melissa? do you think this is a permit jordy on the conservative court will overturn overturn things? one of the things you have to weigh here is the question of institutional isn t. this is a court that has, in just the last few months, laid