the last scheduled decision day of the term, we could finally get some answers on some massive undecided cases. rulings on affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, and lgbtq+ rights among others. decisions that could impact all of us, and they could come down at any minute, and we have a full lineup of guests and experts on this. i want to begin with nbc news correspondent julia ainsley who s standing by at the supreme court for us. julia, set the scene there, how might this go down? reporter: well, you re right, this is the last scheduled day, ana, but we re expecting another day possibly to get on the court s schedule for tomorrow. that would leave just two days left in june when they typically wrap up their term, and they have these three huge decisions left. so doing the math, we expect at least one of those big decisions to come today, either when it comes to religious rights versus free speech, religious rights and lgbt rights. of course affirmative action, and h
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tie-in between the public discourse right now around diversity and everything that we are discussing, the misunderstanding of how race is actually used and discussed, and then a very disingenuous conversation about race in america, all of which has contributed to us being where we are. i share eddie s feelings about knowing this was coming but also being emotional about it now that we are actually hearing those words. and to julia s point, what she was just talking about, we have already seen in california, for example, what it does to a student body to remove race from a factor of admissions. it has not worked out well. we have seen fewer and fewer black students in the uc systems because of the removal of race as a factor in terms of being able to identify qualified applicants who can be there. but explain that, explain that because i think a lot of people think you re either qualified or you re not. why does race even matter. i think that s what the justices are saying here, right
has ended today and this morning. as we learn more here, derrick johnson, what are you thinking? was what was just described is a land mine of lawsuits, a lack of clarity for institutions to move forward. it really is a chilling effect on what institutions are willing to risk in this moment. but institutions must take the risk to ensure diversity for the future work force, diversity for future leaders because if we don t, we re going to start seeing a rapid diminishing return on our educational outcomes in terms of the quality of leadership. the beautiful thing about the diversity of this country is the diversity of this country and we must embrace it. the worst thing about this country is we have denied some of the most talented, visionary folks that i have ever met come from zip codes who have been denied k through 12, who have
communities to participate in opportunities to bring forth some of the most creative minds that this nation has ever seen in a way in which race is not a factor to bar opportunity, that race is celebrated, that diversity is celebrated, that cultural uniqueness is celebrated so that we can have a more perfect union, a society that looks more inclusive like the demographics and less like a 1950 reality in which people are trying to run us back to. i think we still have dahlia lithwick with us, and i have to ask you, dahlia, what do we know about this group that brought the cases? because i understand they have been trying to overturn affirmative action and bar affirmative action from college admissions processes for years. this is students for fair admissions. this is exactly the same group. it s one very, very invested, very wealthy opponent of affirmative action, edward bloom who brought the abigail fisher
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