with a very good day, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to all of you to alex witt reports. it is three pm eastern, out west. the campaign season certainly heating up with events on both coasts. president biden is campaigning in columbia, south carolina today. republican candidate, nikki haley, it campaigning trust about 90 miles or so away. early voting starts today in nevada and vice president kamala harris is in las vegas. so is gop front runner, donald trump. also new today, trump is reiterating his call for senate republicans to reject a bipartisan border deal that ties ukraine aid to border security. speaker mike johnson s already said that bill may be dead on arrival in the house. president biden is urging congress to get on board. saying he will use his authority and the bills provisions to, quote, shut down the border. meanwhile, texas is escalating its efforts to divide this week s supreme court ruling. refusing to allow federal officials to r
affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from the architect of the lawsuits, the schools were accused of giving substantial preferences to black and hispanic applicants while discriminating against asian students. what this lawsuit reveals is that personality
designed to create diverse student bodies at our countries colleges and universities. we re going to talk about why that ruling is so much better than just a college admission process. plus, the conservative-leaning court also presided president biden s debt forgiveness plan was unlawful, which means payments will default again soon. we are talking to biden s domestic policy chief about what the president can do to still give americans some form of relief for their student loan debt and much more. and when it comes to this idea of color blindness the conservatives want you to believe is their way of not seeing race as a factor in legislation or policymaking. well, i say they are lying. i ll explain why later this hour. i am symone sanders-townsend, folks, live from new orleans, today. hey essence. and i have got something to say. elections have consequences, and supreme court rulings have ramifications. millions of americans will soon feel the consequences of this n
hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle, let s take a big deep breath because we have a lot to cover tonight, today the nation s highest court struck down race based affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from th
mad noted that kamala was the first black woman on a major party s ticket. that was all true. but what nearly no outlet wrote is that in selecting kamala harris, joe biden was choosing s the worst viceng president in presidential year histor worsty. now, that s no longer justou our opinion. it s what the american people fully believe. a ne fully w nbc poll found that kamala harris has now hit a record low four net favorability among vicety. president. 49% of voters have a negative view of her. 49 pjust a third have a positivh view of harris. it s not hard to see why non ina person in american politics has beenme celebrated more for doin so little. lookg back, it s amazing that biden even chose kamala. she was the first to drop out of the democratic primary. she didn t even makerimary. ite iowa caucus. in a way, the choice was part of biden s genius, though. choosing kamala basically made biden impeachment approve on day one. as bad as joe biden wouldon prove to be, no one