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
as the nation observes and extended independence day weekend, i find myself reflecting on how our country has been radically transformed by decisions handed down last week by the ultraconservative supreme court super majority. in their new america, higher education is further out of reach for people of color and those struggling financially to keep pace with skyrocketing tuitions and the skills of justice are tipped in favor of business owners who wish to discriminate on the basis of sexual preference and gender. against the rights of americans who simply want the freedom to if their lives openly, as they please. the biden administration has already mobilized the response to the sweeping rules and sweeping rulings, looking for work around s to restore and protect policies popular with the american people. i am hopeful some of these fixes will work, but i know it will take a larger movement to push back against a deeply ideological minority that has plotted for decades to take
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action instate college admissions, our conservative majority u.s. cream court was issuing its ruling, dismantling race based affirmative action in college admissions. i read where the task force members condemned that decision, encouraging our supreme court justices to read your report. speaking as an attorney and task force chair, how does the court s decision impact a proposed reversal of your states affirmative action ban and are you worried that opponents might sue the state to impede a repaired of action if they pass? yes, i think there will be a challenge no matter what but the task force set ourselves up with success and again constructing our recommendations, not on the basis of race, but on the basis of lineage or being a descendant of slaves. in fact, the majority of our
security, about issues around gun violence. these are the issues that people have to get involved with, because our democracy only works when the people demand that it works. now, one last question. in the events of these supreme court decisions, california s legislature is now set to take up recommendations from the states first in the nation task force on reparations. that task force turns in its final report to the state assembly thursday. it included a model for cash payments and laid out who would be eligible. it s also included policy recommendations such as a formal state apology for disenfranchising black residents, and a repeal of the states affirmative action ban. while this is happening in the country s most populous state, there s been a renewed push by some house democrats to take up the issue in congress. if democrats retake the house