politicsnation. today from essence festival in new orleans. tonight s lead, justice not served. less than a week after the nation marked the first anniversary of roe s reversal, our conservative majority supreme court handed down a series of regressive decisions. collectively ruling against young and vulnerable people in a diversifying nation. on affirmative action, decades of transformative tools for underrepresented, specifically black kids seeking a higher education. the court left them to their own devices. on president biden s plan to apply a modest relief to suffering student borrowers, the court ruled that the administration had overstepped its bounds. and on lgbtq rights, the court insisted that the right to deny business on religious grounds can be protected as freedom of speech. president biden yesterday after days of responding to these judicial attacks on social progress, laid the blame for this week s decision at the feet of conservative lawmakers and the justice
challenge to the ruling, because of them? the court did not say anything about legacy applicants. and you re right. legacy admissions isn t among norma s part of the admissions calculus. many schools provide benefits or preferences to the students who are the children of alumni, or who are children of individuals who could be large donors. whether a president or in the future, there are also considerable preferences for recruited athletes in particular areas. and you saw that with the varsity police scandal just a few years ago. the court didn t say anything about that. the court did spend a lot of time peppering the general with about the prospect of the military academies, because of the particular interest in national security and the need for diverse leaders to lead a fighting force that is comprised primarily of minority individuals, who are enlisted in the armed services. and so the national security interests it seems has allowed for this car vote for the military academy,