well, i think to that question, ana, is something that the president is unwilling to endorse. you know, i spoke with president biden s new domestic policy adviser over the weekend, and i asked her, i said isn t the court already politicized, and are there any reforms that the president is even willing to consider, not necessarily saying he s ready to endorse, and she noted that, look they ve take en up a review early on in the transition prior to president biden coming into office about the supreme court, looking at it. but the president fundamentally believes that that you know, his comments then, he doesn t believe that you can just go around just changing justices on the supreme court. so i do think that the people, whether it s the supreme court, ana, congress, the white house, elected officials, public trust has been lost in these institutions, and it s been
motivator, but only as a big package, which party is out of step. i think that s what dobbs fundamentally underline. presidential campaigns are always about the big question, the big issues, and the big values in america, and so i think all of those decisions basically put the democrats in the position where they represent america in the 21st century and the republicans don t. and so that s what i think is going to matter as a big question for where we are as a country. symone, president biden last week called it not a normal court, and a new abc poll finds that 53% believes that the supreme court rules based on partisan political views versus the basis of the law. symone, what needs to change on the supreme court to protect what the majority of americans actually want?
a chilling effect on any institution that has used diversity to try to compensate for decades of shutting out people of color. the same day that the case was decided, law firms sent emails to companies, saying that they needed to reevaluate their diversity and inclusion programs that same day. and this decision is going to have a chilling effect that many institutions, which frankly who are not all that committed to diversity in the first place. now, they may eliminate recruiting programs and scholarships design for people of color, just because they are scared that they are going to get sued. okay, i want to move this to the long case, because the biden administration will now pursue forgiveness to the higher education act, that is a change. and i want to call attention to justice elena kagan s dissent in this case. this is what she wrote. she says, the court, by
no, no, no, if jesus tells you that you can t serve people, then all of a sudden, that becomes a new way to puncture secular public accommodation laws, and then, certainly, there is no more political decision than student debt relief decision where biden used an authorization from congress to relieve 400 billion dollars of debt to 43 million americans, and the court simply didn t like the policy. so, they ignored biden s authority. they ignored the will of congress and threw the policy away. those are three hyper political decisions. so, biden thinks that he s worried about the court becoming political, don t worry, mister president, because that court has left the barn 23 years ago. yeah, paul, lot of folks would say that the court is already politicized. we talked about this commission, that commission, that racial report they issued.
of our democracy. i think this is a very hard issue to balance. and so, i don t forestall the option that there would be steps to be taken down the road. but i have to say clearly, the president s view is that this time, there are grave consequences to weakening a judiciary, that is an important part of democracy going forward. and so, there is an issue that we all have to balance. and he believes that the best option would be for the court itself to recognize that when it a pence precedent as it did in its decision on affirmative action 45 years of precedent, it weakens itself in the eyes of the country. before i let you go, neera, one of the other things that supreme court weighed in on this week was again this hypothetical made up case of a web designer. and i did not know that the court trafficked in hypotheticals. in the wake of that ruling, what will the white house be doing to inflate lgbtq+ folks