believed it contributed to the better than expected results for democrats. do you see a similar backlash in the conservative dominated court, after these decisions? oh, absolutely. dobbs really changed the whole scheduling of how this presidential election will probably be run. it will force the state to really push their people to turn out on this issue, because it s now a state issue. it is no longer a federal issue. a woman s right to choose her own health care. that s what s at stake, so i think when you look at states like michigan, which had a great run on its candidates and legislature, wisconsin with the judges. the issue does turn people out. i also think though, that some of these supreme court rulings can be used very directly with different coalitions to bring them out. and just remember, we look at
lgbtq protections, the court ruled in favor of a christian web designer in colorado, who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings out of religious objections. and the supreme court also ruled on thursday that 40 plus years of affirmative action admission policies are unconstitutional. meaning universities can no longer consider race when admitting students. joining me now is alfonso david, he is an attorney, lgbtq civil rights activist, and president and ceo of the global black economic forum. thank you so much for being with us and joining us tonight in the middle of all you re doing at this festival. alfonso, i you re joining us from the essence festival. here in new orleans, as i would
from your fellow black leaders and influencers about the supreme court decisions? because i almost feel what you re announcing tonight when we go out there is all more necessary based on this decision. but what have you been hearing? i mean, what i ve been hearing is a reflection of what the vice president has been saying. this is a reminder to all of us that we have an activist supreme court, and that court is denying our history. that s what this is. you know, black americans especially need to recognize that we are moving backwards. we have a court that is stripping away our fundamental principles and denying our history. you know, the global black economic forum is a place for black leaders and other leaders who are supporting issues that affect black and brown people, not to just discuss social and economic justice, but also to build partnerships into strategize and make real progress. so as we see these decisions
happening before us. so we are coming together to fight back, and we re talking about joy and we re talking about justice. two words that a court to the black experience here in our country. and we re going to bring groups together who are going to be fighting back at what some people would like to advance it, a culture and environment where we re less than. and we re not going to accept that. all right. alonso david, a major announcement tonight. thank you for being with us. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. stay with us and you know i didn t. it makes my running shoe look like new. it s amazing! wow, it makes it look like. i don t have kids at all. it s so good, it makes it look like i have magical powers! with 80% less scrubbing, mr. clean magic eraser makes cleaning easy. also available in sheets!
a same-sex wedding. this was a purely hypothetical dispute. so there was no actual case or controversy, and this was really discussed at length in oral arguments. many individuals felt that the court had no business even getting to the merits of this case, because electors diction because this was not an actual case or controversy between two people with an injury. and so that s the first thing. this was the court that was determined to hear this issue, and so it spurred this entire requirement that there actually be standing in jurisdiction to hear this case. and then it went on to determine that whenever a state like colorado has an anti discrimination law, that anti discrimination law actually acts as a compelled speech mandate to those who may not agree with the antidiscrimination message. and as you say, that has real ramifications throughout the country for the other states who have also decided through their democratic processes to provide antidiscrimination protections on a wid