He named the explicit damage and target and harm this court is doing. but doesn t want to take any action. and that is what rubbed me wrong, because as a black woman in this country, as an individual who is under direct attack from multiple precedent breaking decisions over the past few years from this court, i don t have the patience. so i m looking at biden like, you need to use every tool available to you, beyald a study, beyond a report, and consider your options because you can t say this court is taking the country in the wrong direction in one breath and then do nothing about it. we had this conversation with the great rachel maddow and nicolle afterwards, that there is this sort of disconnect between biden s institutionalism. he is an og politician. he s been around doing this since he was 29. and he really does believe in the institutions. he s not faking that. he s like barack obama that way. and the kind of panic that people are feeling, women, lgbtq folks, minorities of a
People in admissions decisions. the time for that is passed, is what he in essence says. i think history again will prove him wrong. inquestion is how many young valuable lives, they wouldn t realize the heights they can reach. i think that s such a key point because, you know, we had a country in which the planter class became extravagantly wealthy off the free labor of black people. and then 88 years after we technically were made citizens, people were still, you know, blocking the school house door for people to get in, even after brown v. board. but this court is essentially saying, yeah, but you had 60 good years. you don t need anything more, and we essentially are all even. when that is so untrue. can you talk about some of the larger ramifications of this? it s not just college
Legal system, and politics. she noted today s decision further entrenches racial inequality. the court ignores the dangerous consequences of an america where its leadership does not reflect the diversity of the people. the congressional black, asian, and pacific american and hispanic caucuses released a joint statement writing, quote, today s decision deals a needless blow to america s promise of equal and fair opportunity. and joining me now is congressman judy chu of california, chair of the congressional asian pacific american caucus, steve horseford of america, and congressman theresa fernandez of new mexico. thank you all for being here. i want to get all of your reactions to the ruling, but representative chu, i want to start with you. i feel like one of the things john roberts did in his decision and that the other conservatives who are excited about the
They left in place the other ways in which elite schools like harvard and the ivies and all of the other schools decide who can get in. they said you can still let legacies in. they didn t touch that kind of affirmative action which is for the wealthy scions of mainly white families. they left in place if you re an athlete, that s fine, and they left in the place people who are related to somebody who works at the school. what they re saying is the only thing a school can t consider is if you re not white. the argument that the court accepts today is that there s an equal protection violation if you attempt to address the failures of our history by considering someone s race, not solely making a decision based on their race, but considering it as one of a package of factors that go into that decision making process. and like elie says, what is so
With my friend and colleague, nicolle wallace, to talk everything from the supreme court s decision to end affirm ative action who what has become of the republican party. joining me now is kurt bardella and juanita tolliver, political strategist, and despite the supreme court, you guys are both allowed to be here, so welcome. thank you. they don t know, i know clarence thomas really don t love it, but we ll let you stay. let s talk about this. so president biden, right off the top, of course, nicolle asked him about this decision and asked whether he thought the court was abnormal. he did say he thought it was an abnormal court. what do you make of the fact he then sort of pivoted to, i don t think we should do anything to expand it necessarily, i mean, he did go institutionalist on that. it s fully grating me. you know president biden was choosing his words carefully. he was not going to go too far into this is an undemocratic court or anything like that, but