sm mark rulings. here is chief legal correspondent and fox news sunday anchor. hands up. reporter: another day of decisions split, 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court. an opinion by chief justice john robert, the majority struck down the biden administration plan to wipe out $430 billion in student loan debt. we hope the act allows the education secretary to waive or mo modify existing provisions. not to rewrite the statute from the ground up. they argue the secretary did have the power. the statute gives the secretary broad thought to relieve it on borrowers able to repay student loans. president biden who has vowed to wipe out student loan debt conceding he may not have the authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. did you of step your authority? i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. reporter: the court recognized a concrete right for free speech for a colorado web designer who says she shou
done for descendants of slaves. reporter: after two years of deliberations, california reparations task force sent to final report to the state capitol for the state legislature and governor to decide how the state should handle reparations. many expected it to call for a concrete dollar amount, the task force is leaving that challenge to the legislature and it provides over 115 recommendations spanning from cash payments to policy reforms to a formal apology to eligible residents designated as descendants of slaves. critics call this effort fiscally irresponsible noting how california is facing a $31.5 billion deficit. reparations is the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to people who were never slaves. we will never see reparations paid in california. again, it s illegal. it s unconstitutional. it violates the equal protection clause. reporter: progressive governor gavin newsom signed legislation creating the first in the nation
might see? here is what we know. inside the courtroom our producer is behind me and we have two boxes. we should be getting multiple opinions today. 6 or 7 left depending how you count them. some are coupled up together. now we wait. it is the last of the term. the end of the term. we think they may add tomorrow to be the final day. we have affirmative action in higher ed., can you use race in considering applicants? a huge battle waged for decades. you have the student loan debt relief program. did the biden administration go too far? do they have the power to wipe out billion else in loans without congress or another body being involved? a couple of religious liberty cases. the web designer out of colorado. does she have to make web designs for everyone? we have the postal worker when he joined the postal service they didn t have sunday delivery. he told them it is a day of sabbath and can t work it. now we re just let s see what we have. the first opinion. not one of t
loans. president biden who has vowed to wipe out student loan debt conceding he may not have the authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. did you of step your authority? i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. reporter: the court recognized a concrete right for free speech for a colorado web designer who says she shouldn t be no, sired to create custom websites for messages that conflict. if liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. justice sotomayer called today sad accusing the majority of declaring a particular kind of business, though especially to
argued the use of race was working against specific groups like asian-american applicants. many argue their near perfect test scores were passed over if favor of other applicants because of their race. the court s two black justices came down on different sides of the dispute with justice jackson recusing from the harvard case because of her one time role on the university of overseers. the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual, not on the basis of race. many universities have done just the opposite and in doing so, they have concluded wrongly, that the touch stone of an individual s identity is not challenges vested, skills built or lessons learned but the color of their skin. justice sotomayer called the opinion devastating adding today s decision exacerbates segregation and diminishes the