rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history, and that s what i meant by not normal. that was president joe biden on msnbc yesterday reacting to rulings from the supreme court overturning affirmative action in college admissions. we ll break down these landmark decisions. meanwhile we re just a few hours away from two more major rulings from the high court, one of which addresses the legality of an executive action from the president. plus, we ll take a look how americans feel about the issue of affirmative action and the growing calls to expand the highest court in the land. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 30th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us, and we ll begin this morning with the landmark decisions from the supreme court ending the systematic consideration of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. the court ruled that the programs at the university of north carolina and one at harva
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from prosecution based on their official acts in office. many legal scholars have speculated that one route the supreme court can take is they decide if there s some level of immunity, perhaps it doesn t apply to the conduct charged against donald trump in this election case brought by jack smith, and that could cause further delays in that case because it would require it to be tossed back to the judge to decide which of these things were presidential acts and which weren t. there s another case that could potentially involve the prosecution of donald trump, has to do with a charge of obstruction of an official proceeding that has been brought against many january 6th defendants, and it s also a part of that washington, d.c. election suppression, trump indictment, and the question whether that has been properly applied to the conduct at issue. and then as you said, there are many other very important decisions we re watching for including a potential gun rights case involvin
He is giving a speech to the people of poland. This is his first major remarks in a city overseas outdoors to a group like this. And we have seen some excerpts already. Its a fairly lofty sweefrpeech. He will talk about how people in the west succeeded now because of paper and regulations, but because they had the ability to chase their dreams. And let me ask you about a point that stuck out to me and i know youve covered the white house and you saw him on the campaign trail. He also tried to cast a little bit of doubt about the credibility of the Intelligence Assessment that russia was interfering. You pushed him hard to say that the 17 Intelligence Agencies were the ones that came out and said that they believe russia was definitively behind it. It seemed he once again reverted back to the Campaign Rhetoric where he would say well, we look the ed its only three
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the conservative side of the bench. those justices appeared skeptical of the biden administration s authority to forgive the debt without congressional approval. and also on the docket a case concerning free speech and the lgbtq plus rights matter. the case is centered around evangelical christian graphic designer in colorado who runs a web design business but does not want to offer her services to gay couples on religious ground. the woman says that colorado s anti-discrimination laws, which prohibit businesses from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, violate her free speech rights to refuse work that conflicts with her own views. a conservative majority appeared sympathetic toward the designer during oral arguments back in december. meanwhile in an interview with nicolle wallace on deadline white house here on msnbc yesterday, president biden also weighed in on the growing calls