than to be set up for failure and have that be something that haunts you forever where you think i guess i didn t measure up. i guess i didn t belong. why was i here? that s the thing that is underappreciated. the best way to get to having the equal opportunity for everybody is starting young and you nailed it. school choice, get the government out of it and let parents decide. bill: nikki haley saying in part picking winners and losers based off of race is fundamentally wrong. this decision will help every student no matter their background have a better opportunity to achieve the american dream. your thoughts on her comments there. that s right. really it comes down to how do we measure americans in the eyes of the law, right? this is the land of equal opportunity that attracts people, immigrants from around the world. my family came because we would be given a fair chance, equal
may be one of the most significant legacy opinions for john roberts. i expect it will be at the top of the list for most of us in reviewing his time on the court. he have has maintained consistently that we should not be engaging in racial discrimination in the name of diversity. while the universities are likely to circumvent this decision in creative ways, it is an important decision. what roberts has called for for decades is a bright line that clearly establishes that using racial discrimination for good purposes, still using the wrong means to achieve them. that is going to be his legacy. as for the court itself people will emphasize this opinion and say what and ideologically divided court.
shot, right? came poor and their son was able to go to harvard law school. that s an only in america story. unfortunately if you are an asian immigrant like my friends in college back in the day, they did not have that same equal opportunity. they were immigrants like me and grew up in the same neighborhood and they could not get the opportunity because they were being held down. that s what is so offensive by americans of all stripes. the majority of americans and minorities are against racial preferences in education and in government benefits. that is a fact because that is counter american. dana: right. roger severino, stand by. ken markus was the secretary for civil rights during the trump administration. the decision came down 30 minutes ago. the end of affirmative action on college campuses. your initial reaction, sir. this is a big day. a big day for america. a big day for the idea of
review where it examines statutes that are passed by congress or programs like this to determine whether they comply with the united states constitution or with anything the government is doing to make sure that it passes constitutional muster. the court held its understanding of the equal protection clause forbids colleges and universities for considering race in the admissions process. great reporting from shannon pointing out about jackson s dissenting from the bench. what it signals is that she feels very passionate flay rely about this and recognizes the important nature of this course and felt so stroppingly about it she wanted to read her words to the court. bill: the senate s top democrat chuck schumer is responding to this saying in part quote, the supreme court ruling has put a giant roadblock in our country s march towards racial justice. the consequences of this decision will be felt immediately and across the ton
including in the california system, that are getting rid of standardized tests and i think it s a huge mistake. but they are getting rid of standardized test because they believe it helps diversity. if you eliminate those it will be more difficult to show racial patterns because those standardized tests are one of the key means of looking alt why some groups like asians seem to be consistently accepted on one level despite their scores being higher than that. so we ll have some fights in the future as i think universities will game it. academics are very clever people and they are not going to like the opinion and they are going to try to pivot the way they did after bakke in the 70s. dana: stand by. shannon bream you have had more chance to digest and right there at the supreme court on this historic day as this decision has come down. one of the things that