evening. now it s time to last word with jonathan kaye pot in for lawrence. good evening, jonathan. good evening, alex. quite the day we ve had today. i know you re gonna have a great show analyzing what went. down yes, we will. alex, thank you very much. have a great show. this is not a normal court. that was what president biden said after the radical conservatives on the supreme court, for the second time in two years, reversed nearly 50 years of precedent on an issue that has significantly helped improve the lives of americans. last year it was undoing protections for women to make decisions about their own reproductive health. today it s undoing the consideration of race in college admissions, which has let helped level educational opportunities for minority students, like me. 30 years or so ago. it is a court that is looking to move the country backwards. as president biden told msnbc s nicole wallace earlier today. it s done more to unravel basic rights and
hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle, let s take a big deep breath because we have a lot to cover tonight, today the nation s highest court struck down race based affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from th
and a programming note in honor of pride month, i will be speaking with champions of the lgbtq community who are fighting to hold on to their rights at a time when conservative governments are restricting fundamental freedoms. watch defending pride tomorrow night at 11 pm eastern on msnbc, and stream mitt on peacock. i hope you will join us then. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. tonight the landmark ruling from the supreme court on affirmative action. the conservative majority striking down a decades long precedent for college admissions. president biden s exclusive interview with msnbc, weighing in on the courts decision and why he is still optimistic about bipartisanship. new reporting on the classified documents investigation continuing even after trump s indictment the latest moves from the grand jury as the 11th