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
The warren court ended racial segregation in public schools, expanded voting rights, upheld free speech, legalized interrational marriage and paved the way for legalizing abortion. all landmark changes moving us forward. but this supreme court, the roberts court, or perhaps i should call it the alito court, will definitely go down in history as the opposite, yanking back american progress in direct repudiation of the warren court and the 20th century. justice sonia sotomayor acknowledged as much, writing this court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. the devastating impact of this decision can nat be overstated. the majority s vision of race neutrality will entrench racial segregation in higher education because racial inequality will persist so long as it is