might see? here is what we know. inside the courtroom our producer is behind me and we have two boxes. we should be getting multiple opinions today. 6 or 7 left depending how you count them. some are coupled up together. now we wait. it is the last of the term. the end of the term. we think they may add tomorrow to be the final day. we have affirmative action in higher ed., can you use race in considering applicants? a huge battle waged for decades. you have the student loan debt relief program. did the biden administration go too far? do they have the power to wipe out billion else in loans without congress or another body being involved? a couple of religious liberty cases. the web designer out of colorado. does she have to make web designs for everyone? we have the postal worker when he joined the postal service they didn t have sunday delivery. he told them it is a day of sabbath and can t work it. now we re just let s see what we have. the first opinion. not one of t
Look. let s bring in roger severino, former director of the office of civil rights in the trump administration. you have followed this case very closely, roger. i assume you are not surprised. what are the real world implications for universities now after this decision? this is fantastic news particularly for asian-americans. remember, they were the ones who were artificially kept low and being punished by harvard who gave low personality scores and less likely to be kind. all the subjective buzz words to say we have too many asians. that s what was going on. ashian americans are the big winners here. a man was instrumental in bringing this result. we ll see what harvard and unc does in response. i fear what they do is go under the table to hide continued discrimination on the basis of
Sandra day o connor voted to allow some race to be considered. but she said that she expected in 25 years the court would not allow these race to be considered. that was in 2003. dana: shannon bream has a little more there at the court. what more do you have? so justice sotomayer is reading her dissent. she is reading from her dissent. i want to read you more of what it says. she says the devastating impact of this decision cannot be overstated. the majority s vision of race neutrality will entrench racial segregation in higher ed. because racial inequality will persist so long as it is ignored. you talk about the plaintiffs in this case, the students, and
Way that is more clever and direct and insidious. this requires very close scrutiny. dana: if you ll stand by i want to bring in tom dupree, former assistant attorney general. you followed this court for a long time and know justice roberts and his background very well. something he has been signaling when i first came in contact with him in 2005. 18 years since that moment when he had his confirmation hearing to the supreme court. he had his majority today, 6-3 is the decision. affirmative action no longer allowed in college admissions. your reaction? you re right. this is the culmination of a series of cases on affirmative action the court has heard going back decades. justice o connor famously wrote in a case involving the university of michigan program shell expected affirmative action to be not necessary in 25 years. we re almost at that point on the calendar. a lot of court watchers had
Over, dead and buried. dana: roger, does that does it have broader implications outside of higher education? absolutely. wherever you take race into account. think back to another decision. diversity rational. that something that should be sponsor evidence by the state and racial balancing. it has been rejected today. 45% of the students of african-american decent admitted to harvard would not have made it according to harvard s statistics had they not done the racial balancing in the name of diversity. harvard only has 8% of conservatives are admitted students. 82% of harvard students come from wealthy backgrounds. it was about racial balancing. not diversity. they would have done a different system if they cafard about it. they could have gotten rid of they focused on race and it will be pulled back now. bill: stand by.