politicsnation. today from essence festival in new orleans. tonight s lead, justice not served. less than a week after the nation marked the first anniversary of roe s reversal, our conservative majority supreme court handed down a series of regressive decisions. collectively ruling against young and vulnerable people in a diversifying nation. on affirmative action, decades of transformative tools for underrepresented, specifically black kids seeking a higher education. the court left them to their own devices. on president biden s plan to apply a modest relief to suffering student borrowers, the court ruled that the administration had overstepped its bounds. and on lgbtq rights, the court insisted that the right to deny business on religious grounds can be protected as freedom of speech. president biden yesterday after days of responding to these judicial attacks on social progress, laid the blame for this week s decision at the feet of conservative lawmakers and the justice
challenge to the ruling, because of them? the court did not say anything about legacy applicants. and you re right. legacy admissions isn t among norma s part of the admissions calculus. many schools provide benefits or preferences to the students who are the children of alumni, or who are children of individuals who could be large donors. whether a president or in the future, there are also considerable preferences for recruited athletes in particular areas. and you saw that with the varsity police scandal just a few years ago. the court didn t say anything about that. the court did spend a lot of time peppering the general with about the prospect of the military academies, because of the particular interest in national security and the need for diverse leaders to lead a fighting force that is comprised primarily of minority individuals, who are enlisted in the armed services. and so the national security interests it seems has allowed for this car vote for the military academy,
a diversifying nation. on affirmative action, decades of transformative tools for underrepresented, specifically black kids seeking a higher education. the court left them to their own devices. on president biden s plan to apply a modest relief to suffering student borrowers, the court ruled that the administration had overstepped its bounds. and on lgbtq rights, the court insisted that the right to deny business on religious grounds can be protected as freedom of speech. president biden yesterday after days of responding to these judicial attacks on social progress, laid the blame for this week s decision at the feet of conservative lawmakers and the justices they nominated. let me be clear. republicans in congress, it s not about reducing the deficit.
higher education. around elimination of student loan debt. around whether or not women are going to be able to have the ability to make their own decisions about their body. these are the decisions that this court has made in just the last year, as you noted. i m here in new orleans, the congressional black caucus, we have 12 members of the cpc joining us before a democracy for the people event. we are here at the historic booker t. washington high school, talking directly to constituents about the effects of these decisions. what they mean, and what they don t mean, and what we as the people have to do to stand up to defend our democracy in this urgent moment. and i remember, just a couple of weeks ago you announced that tour right on your show. we re glad to get you on the road, and all being together in
final rulings, released this week, there were a trio of opinions that could reshape american society moving forward. including limiting lgbtq public accommodations in some businesses, rejecting student loan forgiveness for tens of millions of borrowers, and restrictive affirmative action. president biden responded to this ruling during an interview with msnbc s nicole wallace on thursday, calling the current court quote, not normal. take a listen. you said this court is not normal. what did you mean? what i meant by that is it s time to unravel basic rights and basic to than any court in recent history. and that s what i meant by not normal. how do these decisions impact black voters who are disproportionately affected by