and i think that across the board, the vast majority of the american people don t agree with a lot of the decisions the courts are making. president biden in an exclusive interview with my colleague, nicolle wallace, responding to today s very predictable supreme court decision on affirmative action. and that is where we begin tonight, with the united states supreme court once again turning the arc of justice away from equality and back to the early 20th century. striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. the roberts court, which wouldn t even look like the court it is today without affirmative action, decided that race conscious admissions programs at harvard university and the university of north carolina violate equal protection under the constitution. it is fitting then that it would be the court s first black woman justice, ketanji brown jackson, who clearly articulated the cost of this latest regression. writing in her dissent, with let them
come on. hypocrisy is stunning. you can t help a family making $75,000 a year, but you can help a millionaire and you have your debt forgiven? i believe the court s decision to strike down my student debt relief program was a mistake, was wrong. one of the most regressing supreme court terms in history comes to an ignominious end with blows to president biden s student debt plan, lgbtq protections, and affirmative action. also tonight, moms for liberty was designated an extremist group by the southern poverty law center. so it s no surprise that republican presidential candidates including ron desantis are right at home at their convention. we begin tonight with the supreme court on the final day of their term, delivering a devastating one-two punch to the american people. today, the six conservative justices ruled in favor of an evangelical christian web designer who refused to make websites for same-sex weddings. a major setback to lgbtq rights and protections. they als
plus. the poll that matters is the poll that is taken on november 8 at 8:00 p.m. a deep dive on those attention grabbing poles. we have pollsters from both parties hereto explain what the numbers can and cannot tell us ahead of november 8. republican kellyanne conway joins us live. republicans aim to win the house and senate but they have yet to overcome razor thin origins and key races. democrats caught on a hot mike reassuring president biden they can hold on. asking republican national committee chairwoman whether her party can close the deal. we will get reaction from democratic senator chris coons who has been on the trail helping a senator in a tight race. plus, elon musk takes the helm of twitter. wilkie gave former president trump back his megaphone. we will ask our sunday panel what happens now that the billionaire free speech advocate is in charge. it could be the biggest supreme court case this fall. arguments in college admissions. the potential impact on kids
system has for her. and so what is impactful is including affirmative action and now this case related to free speech has been the idea of similar lawyers. you had edward bluhm with the affirmative action case with different action trying to get to the supreme court, and the different bain of trying to understand the contours of the supreme court holdings, and this is a trend where people are looking and combing through very carefully through supreme court precedent to ensure that they are able to acknowledge, understand and identify the various loopholes or open doors that the supreme court has opened, and then use them in future litigation to close them. elie, one thing that has changed here is since the 2020
conservative christians known this, which is why all these billionaire dollar funded right wing groups are hunting for cases that fit their agenda and rushing them before the court. because they know that they will win, even if those cases don t directly involve them at all. both of the affirmative action cases were brought by a group called students for fair admissions founded by edward bluhm who is, surprise surprise, not a student. he s a 71-year-old conservative activist who has made it his life s mission to put an end to race conscious admissions policies. in the case of the wedding website, the plaintiff, lorie smith, never even had a gay couple ask for service. the whole case was based off a hypothetical. she was simply a website designer who wanted to make wedding websites some day but didn t want to have to do it for gay couples if they asked, which apparently they did not. in the case of student loan forgiveness, the court ruled in favor of six red states, yes, states, gnaw a