A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. There has to be some discrimination here. There has to be something against Asian Americans specifically. This case is going to be something more than just about admissions. The notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating for a number of areas of the law. An
and i think that across the board, the vast majority of the american people don t agree with a lot of the decisions the courts are making. president biden in an exclusive interview with my colleague, nicolle wallace, responding to today s very predictable supreme court decision on affirmative action. and that is where we begin tonight, with the united states supreme court once again turning the arc of justice away from equality and back to the early 20th century. striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. the roberts court, which wouldn t even look like the court it is today without affirmative action, decided that race conscious admissions programs at harvard university and the university of north carolina violate equal protection under the constitution. it is fitting then that it would be the court s first black woman justice, ketanji brown jackson, who clearly articulated the cost of this latest regression. writing in her dissent, with let them
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we have lots of news to cover and questions to answer. and so let s get started. supreme disappointment, the conservative-leaning highest court in the land dishing out serious setbacks to affirmative action, lgbtq+ rights, and millions of americans crushed under student loan duct. we are going in-depth on the real world impacts of these rulings in the future of the supreme court. plus, there is a take. the smoking gun that could be the most damaging evidence yet against the twice impeached, twice in the one term ex president and this is not the only legal trouble for trump this week. we are breaking it all down ahead. and later, let s take a joyride. i talked to the api team behind the movie critics already calling the funniest comedy of the year. all of this and much more coming up. and a good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. the supreme court wrapped up its turn by rolling out a series of blockbuster decisions. the super conservative 63 majority getting camp for
sandra: awaiting a press conference for students for fair admission who brought on this case after we heard from the president there just a short time ago. so that presser in washington will be underway any moment. we ll get there when it begins. the group brought two separate cases against the university of north carolina and harvard to the nation s highest court and asian-american student claims he was rejected from six elite universities by race. reaction out of it. thank you for coming. let me introduce participants of this press conference. on my far right is calvin yang, calvin is a participating member of students for fair admissions. he was rejected from harvard a few years ago. to my right is thomas mccarthy, typical spelling, thomas mccarthy. tom is the founding partner of a law firm consevoir and mccarthy, and chief trial counsel and students for fair admissions versus the university of north carolina. to my left is adam mortara. adam is with mortara law, forme