court, for the second time in two years, reversed nearly 50 years of precedent on an issue that has significantly helped improve the lives of americans. last year it was undoing protections for women to make decisions about their own reproductive health. today it s undoing the consideration of race in college admissions, which has let helped level educational opportunities for minority students, like me. 30 years or so ago. it is a court that is looking to move the country backwards. as president biden told msnbc s nicole wallace earlier today. it s done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history. and that s what i meant by not normal. i find it just so out of sorts with the basic value system of the american people. and i think across the board the vast majority of the american people don t agree with a lot of the decisions this court is making. he s right. it s not just of the radical conservative supreme court is undoing decades o
good night and i am symone sanders townsend in for stephanie ruhle. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. the capital of the great state of mississippi is of course jackson. the airport in jackson, mississippi is called jackson medgar widely evers international airport. that airport in jackson is named after medgar evers, the civil rights leader. he was a decorated u.s. army veteran in world war ii. after he came home from the war, after the united states supreme court ruled on brown versus the board of education. in may 1954, segregation, racial segregation was of course supposed to end in american public schools. as you know, it did not. six months after brown v. board, the naacp named medgar evers its first ever field secretary in the state of mississippi. they named him field secretary in mississippi so he could lead their efforts in that state to organize against segregation, to organize for civil rights. and in 1
to reimagine my childhoo without our local branch of th boston public library on ada street, and not just the ada street branch, i spent so many great hours. me too. my grandmother was a librarian books are important. reading is a skill that yo want young children, and all children, to have. i mean, literally th dictionary definition of putting but like so many public right now in america, it depends o what state you live in so, there is no threatening of libraries in massachusetts where i grew up, and there i also no threatening of abortio rights in massachusetts, w will have massachusetts ne attorney general join us tonight to talk about this massachusetts plan to continue to deliver abortion medication no matter what a federal judge in texas says. this is a fascinating plan the have in massachusetts. we will see how that will work fascinating and important especially at this hour. i will be watching, lawrence thank thank you alex thank you. the breaking news
street, and not just the ada street branch, i spent so many great hours. me too. my grandmother was librarian, books are important reading is a skill that yo want young children, and all children, to have. i mean, literally the dictionary definition of putting but - like so many public right now in america, it depends o what state you live in. so there is no threatening of libraries in massachusetts where i grew up, and there i also no threatening of abortio rights in massachusetts, w will have massachusetts ne attorney general join us tonight to talk about this massachusetts plan to continue to deliver abortion medication no matter what a federal judge in texas says. this is a fascinating plan they have i massachusetts. we will see how that will work fascinating and important especially at this hour. i wil be watching, lawrence. thank. thank you alex. than you. the breaking news legal new of the day s manhattan distric attorney alvin bragg takin legal action agai
well, you know what i how i feel about your father. and i know how he feels about you, lawrence. thanks, alex. have a great show. thank you. andrew weissmann will join us in our first segment tonight to discuss the latest discovery of classified documents involving former vice president not named joe biden. so, far no republicans, exactly zero republicans, have called for a special prosecutor to investigate mike pence s possession of classified documents, discovered two years after he left office. but we begin tonight with future defendants. those were the key words spoken today in a georgia courtroom by fulton county district attorney fani willis. she was in the courtroom today to protect the rights of future defendants, who are the focus of a report written by the special grand jury that fani willis empaneled to hear evidence of a possible election crimes committed by donald trump and others in georgia in an attempt to overturn the last presidential election. th