white house meeting in december of 2020. flynn along with a crew of trump s lawyers like rudy giuliani and sidney powell, presented an avalanche of baseless claims of election fraud, while the white house lawyers debunked all of them. at that meeting, sydney powell presented trump with a draft executive order that would have directed the military to seize our nation s voting machines. a lot of that plan would have also made sydney powell herself a special counsel, and could have imposed martial law, and require a re-run of the election. obviously, that didn t, and thankfully, in the happening. the mutinous ideas pitched in that oval office meeting did not exist in a vacuum. they were part of a desperate effort by trump s outside legal team to upend the results of the 2020 election. those lawyers would ultimately file and lose more than 60 lawsuits, pushing bogus instances of election fraud. so, it makes sense that the wall street journal today is reporting that special counse
and i think that across the board, the vast majority of the american people don t agree with a lot of the decisions the courts are making. president biden in an exclusive interview with my colleague, nicolle wallace, responding to today s very predictable supreme court decision on affirmative action. and that is where we begin tonight, with the united states supreme court once again turning the arc of justice away from equality and back to the early 20th century. striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. the roberts court, which wouldn t even look like the court it is today without affirmative action, decided that race conscious admissions programs at harvard university and the university of north carolina violate equal protection under the constitution. it is fitting then that it would be the court s first black woman justice, ketanji brown jackson, who clearly articulated the cost of this latest regression. writing in her dissent, with let them
case after liberal justice brown jackson recused herself. all conservative justices siding with the majority. they decided both programs do violate the 14th amendment equal protection clause and therefore unlawful. shannon bream, chief legal correspondent is watching it for us. this is a big day. we look back 19 years ago. in 2003 justice sandra day o connor was the swing or deciding vote in what was a landmark supreme court case over race. perhaps the most divisive social, political and cultural issue in the country s history. fast forward to today. tell us about the conservative court majorities blocking colleges using race as part of the admissions process. this case came from a group of asian-american students part of the emphasis saying we re being harmed by the way the race is being used in admissions processes. justice gorsuch during the arguments about this policy said what are you supposed to tell asian american applicants who have coaches telling them try to hide
loif. again. the justices say affirmative action is wrong. the conservative majority s ruling will change how college admissions decisions are made everywhere. plus personal and pointed. the two black justices on the bench use their opinions to litigate a fight over the role of race in american society. and the ruling is making waves already on the 2024 campaign trail. president trump calls it a great day for america. president biden set to speak in minutes from the white house. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. the supreme court undoes decades of law and precedent. the justices today ruled to gut affirmative action, and it will scramble how colleges pick and choose who gets into their schools. it will also likely force students, especially black and brown students torks rethink where they even apply for college. i want to get straugt to jessica snider in washington. so jessica, this is a major, major ruling. it is. and at this point,
affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from the architect of the lawsuits, the schools were accused of giving substantial preferences to black and hispanic applicants while discriminating against asian students. what this lawsuit reveals is that personality