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
this series of rulings? are they more energized, or demoralized, michael? that s an interesting question. when you first say that, i do agree with doug brandon in terms of this particular supreme court that acts like a as it relates to the election and black voters, it would be very easy for those people to feel despair as it relates to their engagement in politics and whether they should actually care. but i think this is a perfect opportunity for all of us to stand up and be more engaged, because elections matter. and if we re going to turn this court around, we all have to be engaged. it s gotta be a whole all hands on deck effort. and so our engagement in 2024 is needed now more than ever. that s how we got this court in the first place. some of us did not vote, and others did. but susan, the dobbs decision looms large in the 2022 midterms, and many analysts