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gearing up for an historic trip to europe meant to strengthen american leadership overseas. after a week spend touting the administration s command of the economic situation here at home. yesterday the labor department announced 209,000 jobs were added in july. the white house touted he number as a sign of bidenomics inaction. alongside consumer-focused efforts to reduce jump fees and health care costs. and democrats and their allies are mobilizing in the wake of last week s rulings from the conservative dominated supreme court. with race based affirmative action band, legislators and lawyers are taking aim at so-called legacy admissions. we talk to one group suing harvard university for what some call affirmative action for the rich. in the meantime, it was a bloody-long independence weekend, as mass shootings rocked cities from coast to coast. kansas city mayor quentin once better law enforcement, but also tighter gun restrictions. he will join us shortly. and later ....
gigot. president biden slam ared the supreme court s decision ore jekyll9 the use of race when considering an applicant for higher education. ruling will force colleges and universities to find other ways of earn answering diverse i the among their student populations. chief justice john roberts wrote the the majority opinion. both harvard and the university of north carolina argued those policies were endorsed for decades with the high court with one goal, to promote the robusts, intellectually-diverse campus. but a group of asian-american students challenged that saying it held them to a higher standard than other groups of applicants. ruling could have major implications not only for higher education, but for industry ises that use race as a way the boost diversity. joining the panel, columnists khan henning good morning america kim strassel and bill mcgurn. dan henninger. bill, i don t know how many columns you ve one about this case, but it s been a lot, and yo ....
disappointment saying colleges are stronger when they re racially diverse. we can t go backwards. you know, i know today s court decision is a severe disappointment to so many people including me. we cannot let the decision be a permanent setback for the country. with me right now, politico s white house bureau chief jon jonathan lemire at the white house, and democratic strategist and former executive director of the new york state democratic party, basil, so jonathan, first to you, every time there s a supreme court decision we hear how consequential elections are. what s the fallout you re following here? you just heard from president biden express real dismay at the decision. he urged colleges to consider candidates backgrounds, races, ethnicities when it comes to institutions of higher learning. he was asked as he was leaving the room there after making his statement, he was asked by a reporter if this was a rogue court, meaning the supreme court, and he paus ....
appreciated one of the guests you had on making this point about how they thought that the case of 303 creative would be narrowly defined. and i was in agreement with you that i hope that is the case because i think a lot of people have been looking at that and seeing it as opening the floodgates to possible discrimination against lgbtq members for whatever reason, you know, services, or free speech. but at the end of the day, it has created the lgbtq community or made them feel like second class citizens in this country. absolutely. i was also, you know, glad to hear it presented in that way that perhaps, it s a lot more-limited, and it can be interpreted by other courts as well in a lot more limiting way. so, let s hope let s hope, and let s wait and see. it s great to see you, as always, my friend. enjoy the rest of your evening off. and good evening to you. welcome to ayman. tonight, it ain t over. the classified documents grand jury is still hearing evidenc ....
the last scheduled decision day of the term, we could finally get some answers on some massive undecided cases. rulings on affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, and lgbtq+ rights among others. decisions that could impact all of us, and they could come down at any minute, and we have a full lineup of guests and experts on this. i want to begin with nbc news correspondent julia ainsley who s standing by at the supreme court for us. julia, set the scene there, how might this go down? reporter: well, you re right, this is the last scheduled day, ana, but we re expecting another day possibly to get on the court s schedule for tomorrow. that would leave just two days left in june when they typically wrap up their term, and they have these three huge decisions left. so doing the math, we expect at least one of those big decisions to come today, either when it comes to religious rights versus free speech, religious rights and lgbt rights. of course affirmative action, ....