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
designed to create diverse student bodies at our countries colleges and universities. we re going to talk about why that ruling is so much better than just a college admission process. plus, the conservative-leaning court also presided president biden s debt forgiveness plan was unlawful, which means payments will default again soon. we are talking to biden s domestic policy chief about what the president can do to still give americans some form of relief for their student loan debt and much more. and when it comes to this idea of color blindness the conservatives want you to believe is their way of not seeing race as a factor in legislation or policymaking. well, i say they are lying. i ll explain why later this hour. i am symone sanders-townsend, folks, live from new orleans, today. hey essence. and i have got something to say. elections have consequences, and supreme court rulings have ramifications. millions of americans will soon feel the consequences of this n
that does it for a special coverage primetime special coverage this evening but we have much more ahead and now it s time for the last word with a great lawrence o donnell. we have breaking e. jean carroll knows which away began on your show with your interview with e. jean carroll and her lawyer, and that is in the lawsuit, she has another lawsuit against donald trump for all the comments he made about her, and today a federal judge, luis kaplan, granted e. jean carroll s request to revise the defamation lawsuit that she filed against donald trump to include the similar comments that he made recently on cnn, that he made last month on cnn. you had a chance to ask them if that is what their plan was. and it certainly sounded like it was. i said, i mean, you just got this huge judgments against him for saying these terrible things about you that were untrue, and then as soon as the judge came back he said again, what can you do about? that and e. jean carroll s lawyer said
tonight, straight from the source. aftershocks as donald trump fires back all the way to the supreme court. the new push in america s most populous state to try and boot him off the ballot after colorado supreme court removed him from the republican primary for engaging in insurrection. his california next? the official leading that charge joins us tonight. also, the fate of the hostages in gaza. there is word of israel s new offer, how hamas is responding, as the humanitarian crisis in gaza grows more desperate by the day. and it s an infamous murder case that once gripped the nation. a pregnant woman killed and her husband s accusation that ignited deep racial divisions and mistrust in boston. tonight, an apology. 34 years later, to the two black men who are wrongfully accused. kaitlan collins is off tonight, i m brianna keilar. and this is the source. tonight, donald trump put potential return to the white house will depend, in part, on the same grinch of a governm
tonight, straight from the source, aftershocks as donald trump plans to fire back all the way to the supreme court. the new push in america s most populous state to try and boot him off the ballot after colorado s supreme court removed him from the ballot for insurrection. also the fate of the hostages in gaza. there is word of israel s new offer. how hamas is responding, as the humanitarian crisis in gaza grows more desperate by the day. and it s an infamous murder case that once gripped the nation. a pregnant woman killed and her husband s accusation that ignited deep racial divisions and mistrust in boston. tonight an apology 34 years later to the two black men who were wrongly accused. kaitlan collins is off tonight. i m brianna keilar, and this is the source. tonight, donald trump s potential return to the white house will depend, in part, on the same branch of government that repeatedly rebuffed his election conspiracy theories, the judiciary. colorado, with its