classrooms and libraries. the removal of race conscious admissions policies and that striking down of president biden s student loan forgiveness program, they re adding another threat to diversity and education, and challenges for administrators, as justice ketanji brown jackson wrote in her dissent, quote, deeming raced irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. although former race linked legal barriers are gone, race still matters to the lived experiences of all americans in many ways, and today s ruling makes things worse not better. joining me now to discuss is the new president of mount holy all college, danielle hawley, who previously served as the dean of howard university school of law. today, president holly becomes the first black woman to serve as president of mount holy oak college. congratulations to you, madam president. i know it s your first day. but i could imagine you had been anticipating these rulings from the court. what is your plan for maintaining a commitme
yeah, no, that commission was not tasked it was not filled with the right people or tasked with the right mandate. joe biden yesterday or friday said that he doesn t want to expand the court because he doesn t want to see it become politicized. was he paying attention this week. did he see what just happened? i mean there is no more politicization than you can have in this court where in the affirmative action decision, they overturned a policy, not a federal mandate, a policy used by colleges and universities declaring that unconstitutional in direct contravention of the points of the 14th amendment. you can t get more political than that. certainly in the lgbtq case that we saw, what we have is neil gourds gorsuch and the six conservatives creating a new exception to public accommodations lost. public accommodation, that s why people who look like us can t go into a store and get served. those are those laws. and neil gorsuch now says that,
rights allies. we have engage with corporations and other leaders. we should remember that some of the largest companies in the country filed an amicus brief on behalf of affirmative action. also, many former generals filed an amicus brief in support of affirmative action as well, because they recognize that having diverse employees, diverse military is important to our goals as a country. and so, as, again, as the president said, we should not use this. there is no reason to use this as an excuse to go backwards. companies should not fall victim to the attacks of the right on diversity. and really, there s a lot of grounds to move forward. neera, in the president s interview with nicole wallace, he stayed consistent in his opposition to expanding the court. he warned that it would even politicize it.
hear a little bit more to president. and we hope that the court itself will recognize how out of step and how unpopular it s become by being so out of step with the majority of americans. neera, i just think about the fact that next are, we know the justices are going to be deciding another wave of consequential cases. one of those cases will actually include whether people who are under restraining orders for domestic violence can keep firearms. i think it does beg the question, is there any supreme court reform that the president is willing to consider? maybe not ready to endorse, but is he willing to consider in a reform you know, the president had a supreme court commission, a commission on the federal courts, and they laid out a variety of ideas. of course, the president will always examine the facts and look at policies, has the court is a really critical component
right to choose, the 1973 decision was the correct one. so is the media argument here i know you ve seen it, maybe you agree with it that the court is out of step with public opinion, but isn t the court often times out of step with public opinion? for example, brown v. board of education, the school segregation desegregation. what i have seen and, honestly, i feel i would say this if i were a republican, and i think it s wrong. this is a reason that lady justice has a scale, because justice is supposed to be balanced. it s also supposed to be blind, hence the blind bold across her eyes. and what i m sighing are seeing are courts that make decisions that been fit political parties more benefit political parties more. and, of course, the can of worke concern is.