congress, they re essentially amassing more power to themselves. now there were a couple of cases in which they hedges a bit. in voting rights cases from north carolina and alabama. but in those situations, the state officials, republican-led legislatures were pushing the law so far that this court is still moving fairly extreme, moving in some ways in radical ways, but they re just not going to go as far as some of the gop states want. and finally, let me just tell you about our future. this court is a very young court. the three trump appointees are only in their 50s, which their pups compared to when people when the justices near retirement, they re already in their 80s. so this is a court that your children and grandchildren will experience down the road. so to the point that you were making about the kind of mix bag of rulings it seemed, from this court, gregory garr, the former
talking about the decision that you can try to treat people equally when there is a lack of equality. you can t pretend v to b colour-blind when everything in this country is based on color. i think the fact that she is there, even to be able to write it in the dissent is critically important. guy, i want to get your assessment of how you think that we will look back on supreme court term in the years to come. look, on some of the most contentious and most important issues, just as monika saying. the affirmative action case and other cases who you ve talked about, this court got it wrong. what we are saying is having the effects, having a 63 majority on the court. now, it is also true by the way that on a couple of voting rights cases, the court got it right. that is important to note, it is important to recognize the
was a web designer, she did not want to create websites, new websites to celebrate same-sex marriages because she didn t believe that went against her religious beliefs. again, the conservatives led by neil gorsuch, they saw that case as really about the first amendment, she couldn t be forced to create a product with a message that she didn t agree with, whereas the liberals on the other side said this doesn t have to do with the first amendment. this has to do with discrimination. again, they were in loggerheads. and in that student loan case, you had the conservatives saying congress has to give its authority before you forgive billions of dollars of debt, and you had the liberals saying congress did give its authority, you re just not listening. the way you re looking at the law is wrong. roberts did earlier in the term rule in favor of the liberal position in two voting rights cases, but by the end of the term you really saw him back in his place as a conservative, and you looke
governments and for entities to take into account in making decisions that affect people. that really is his principle and he has brought several voting rights cases and he has brought this case and i think that he will continue to challenge places in our society where government and important institutions are taking race into account. judith, this idea that jaime brings up again, this nature of this color blind institution that presumably exist somewhere in this country, it is really interesting for me, particularly given the courts announcements in this decision and what you tweeted, you said quote, i graduated from university of penn, undergrad in columbia law, both used from to action to ensure admissions included a black girl from
here you have a web designer who did not want to make websites celebrating same-sex marriages. neil gorsuch rules in her favor. neil gorsuch was a hero to lgbtq workers in a different case, but he looked at this through a totally different lens, he looked at this as free speech. that mystified the liberals who said this has nothing do with speech, this is about discrimination. again, they re on two different polar sides. then you had chief justice roberts trying to draw everything together at a fraught time. he did rule in favor of the liberal position in two voting rights cases. by the end of the term, chief justice roberts back in the saddle as a conservative leading this court. one thing to remember about this conservative majority, they can afford to lose a vote if they