miguel joins us live this hour to discuss what this means for higher learning in america. and breaking news out of moscow. cnn has new reporting on the top russian general who appears to be missing after the mutiny. documents indicating he was a secret vip member of the wagner mercenary group behind the rebellion. and the former school deputy who failed to confront the park l parkland shooter is found not guilty. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to our top story. the united states supreme court ruling that united states supreme court ruling gutting affirmative action in college admissions. the concern with majority upended precedent and prompting a fiery dissent by liberal justices on the court. cnn s senior supreme court analyst is joining us right now. joan, how did the conservative majority reach this decision and what are the real world impacts of it? well i ll tell
constitution wants. reporter: the biden administration working to provide guidance to colleges nationwide. we re going to produce by september and publish best practices around college admission practices to ensure across the country that our students know that this administration is behind them and we support them making it to college. reporter: now there is a caveat in this case. the supreme court said that u.s. military service academies can actually continue to take race into consideration as a factor in admissions, essentially exempting those military schools from this ruling. that was spelled out in a footnote in the majority opinion. poppy and phil, the chief justice said that in the footnote. but justice ketanji brown jackson called it out in the dissent saying that the court was prioritizing what she called diversity in the bunker versus the boardroom. a lot of back and forth in this case. no question. jessica schneider, thanks so much. we re going to have a lot of c
have resources. wolf, we re convening within weeks here at the department of education a national summit on educational opportunity and response to this scotus decision and we re going to produce by september and publish best practices around college admission practices to ensure across the country that our students know that this administration s behind them and we support them making it into college. the supreme court will rule on the biden student loan forgiveness plan perhaps as soon as tomorrow. are you optimistic that will be upheld and if it isn t, how will that impact borrowers? yes. it s a big decision that we re expecting there. we feel confident. we have the best case forward and we feel confident that the 43 million borrowers who need support right now to get back on their feet after the pandemic deserve the support. you know, 90% of the resources going to this go to people
trace: 16 elite universities, a time of increased challenges to college admission practices with the supreme court set to consider two affirmative action cases this week. alexandria hoff live in d.c. how many former students are involved in the lawsuit against the 16 schools exactly? trace, right now there are five seeking damages. lawyers told the wall street journal over 170,000 former undergrads are eligible to sign on to this. the 16 private universities include brown, columbia, georgetown and yale, are or have been called the 569 president s group, members use the consensus approach to determine how much a student can afford to pay for school. according to the class action complaint against them, defendants by their own admission have participated in a price-fixing cartel to reduce or eliminate financial aid as a locust of competition and has