American institutions. here s reaction from students today. i would hope that students have especially black students, especially intersectionally marginalized communities, will have a seat at the table in redesigning admissions. consideration is important because maybe one person is more qualified but that s only because they have been given resources and opportunities. i think it s important to keep that in mind. i hope this is an opportunity for harfered to step up in recruitment and other efforts but it would be wrong of me to say i m not scared. the court spoke today. the students, the next generation, they may have the last word on this. thanks superspending time with us. the reidout starts right now. tonight on the reidout find it just so out of sorts with the basic value system of the american people.
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
Amendment, which was there for the opposite reason? the fact of the matter is that we are in a political court, put there a third of which was put there by donald trump, who said make america great again. this is the trump court that is trying to go back pre-board of education 1954, and that s where this ruling came down today. and the insult, to add insult to injury, to say, well, you can write about your black, but you can t decide that i m going to help you because you re black. that s just something i can sit in my comfortable chair and read about the misery you suffer, but i cannot say because of the misery that was done, oh, we must remember, joy, we were discriminated not by habit, not even by culture, by law. rosa parks was arrested, she wasn t sent to therapy. she broke the law. and they re saying by law, you no longer have to consider this,