discriminate against other individuals who have other identity, not just who identify with the lgbtq community, african americans, latinos and others. the case, the decision by this court undermines those laws that prevent discrimination in public accommodations, so colorado and other states have said you cannot discriminate against individuals on the basis of their race, religious beliefs or their sexual identity and this case allows this web designer to do just that. it opens the door for other businesses to exclude individuals based on their beliefs and undermines, as i said, those laws which protect individuals who are members of a protected class. doug, you re our historian here. has this year with all of these marquee decisions from affirmative action, roe versus wade, lgbtq, you know, expanded gun rights, the environmental protections, has this been a year like no other?
wrong. we ll get to that new plan in a moment. ron, where does it go from here? now what? well, i think on a narrow issue of, you know, the specific issue of the student debt, the biden administration is going to try to follow develop this fallback plan which some in the democratic party wanted in the beginning from the higher education act but really the larger question is is where the conflict goes between a court that reflects an earlier political era and a changing america. i think, alisyn, we have been here, in the 1850s, seven of the nine supreme court justices apointed by pro-southern democratic presidents and they in the dred scott decision essentially ruled against the agenda of the emerging pa joirt, the republican party and ruled that the central plank in the republican agenda preventing the spread of slavery to the territories was unconstitutional and saw in the 30s, search of the nine appointed ruled to
biden did it anyway then the court found he was right in the first place so my advice to him, by the way, i m sympathetic to student debt these loan holders. i think some may have been duped into bad debt and terms they didn t understand and understand the crushing nature of it. he needs to pass a law, that s the way this is solved to go to congress and try to pass a law and i actually believe there could be political will to do something about it in the way that the court has prescribed here which is just pass a law and you can do kind of that and that s where he ran into trouble. the political issue is pretty clear. there are folks concerned about it and people that are hurting, but the method to cure it is in congress, not in these unconstitutional executive orders. natasha, your thoughts? speaking plainly just there are so many people who watch every day the way our government works or it doesn t work, and this was a beacon of hope, it was an opportunity for people to
today, the conservative majority blocked president biden s student loan forgiveness program. the president fired back saying, the court, quote, misinterpreted the constitution and vowed to put forward another plan to help student borrowers. what will that look like? we ll ask former education secretary arne duncan. also today, the justices ruled in favor of a web designer who refused to create sites for same-sex weddings. there s a twist that make many think it might have been manufactured and that no gay couple asked for a website. now supporters of lgbtq rights fear the court will go further. a big week in the various trump investigations. remember back on monday when cnn obtained the audiotape of former president trump talking about those classified secret documents that he held on to, well, the week ends with members of trump s inner circle talking to investigators. we ll get the latest on where everything stands tonight. let s begin with the supreme court decisions on lgbtq ri
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