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>> that's all the time i have for the day. i am julián castro in for alicia menendez. thanks for spending part of your saturday with us. be sure to follow this show on twitter, instagram, and tiktok at alicia on msnbc. and i will see you tomorrow for more american voices. but for now, i hand it over to ayman mohyeldin. hello, ayman. >> hey, julián, great to see you again. i was gonna say, i was watching the show earlier, and i appreciate one of the guys you had on making this point about
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how they thought that the case of 303 creative would be narrowly defined. and i was in agreement with you that i hope that is the case because i think a lot of people have been looking at that and seeing it as opening the floodgates to possible discrimination against lgbtq members for whatever reason, you know, services, or free speech. but at the end of the day, it has created the lgbtq community or made them feel like second class citizens in this country. >> absolutely. i was also, you know, glad to hear it presented in that way that perhaps, it's a lot more-limited, and it can be interpreted by other courts as well in a lot more limiting way. so, let's hope -- >> let's hope, and let's wait and see. it's great to see you, as always, my friend. enjoy the rest of your evening off. and good evening to you. welcome to ayman. >> tonight, it ain't over. the classified documents grand jury is still hearing evidence in the case against donald trump. are more indictments in the works? plus, fox settling warrants again. new details on the 12 million
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dollar payout a former tucker carlson producer just received. and cruel and unusual -- the conservative supreme court targeting some of our most vulnerable citizens. and republicans -- well, they are cheering them on. i am ayman mohyeldin. let's get started. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> there is a ton of news to get to tonight and a lot of our coverage over the next two hours will focus on this week's supreme court decisions, and the six conservative justices who upended the lives of minority communities and americans with student debt. their ruling strike at the heart of republican ideology, inflicting the maximum amount of harm on anyone who is different to them. but before we actually get to those rulings we need to first highlight another set of legal matters in the news this week, matters pertaining to donald trump in particular. there is new developments in the classified documents case
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that could signal that it is not over yet. donald trump has already been indicted for his alleged mishandling of sensitive material. but officials are reportedly continuing to investigate parts of the case using the federal grand jury in miami. according to the times, there are new subpoenas that have gone out in recent days, indicating the probe is actually spending beyond the initial charges, levied against trump and his aide turned codefendant, walt nauta. now, as the times explains, prosecutors often continue investigating strands of a criminal case after charges have been brought. and sometimes, their efforts actually go nowhere. but post indictment investigations can result in additional charges against people who have already been accused of crimes in the case. and the investigations can also be used to bring charges against new defendants. so, at the same time, we are learning that one of trump's go-to excuses to defend his actions has effectively been debunked, because for months, the ex president has insisted
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that he had the authority to declassify documents as soon as they left the oval office, citing a so-called, standing order. but in response to a freedom of information act that was requested from bloomberg, the justice department and the office of the director of national intelligence, they both said, no. there is no evidence that such an order ever existed. and then, we heard for the first time this week where jurors might someday here, a 2021 audio recording of trump discussing what he called a highly confidential document about iran at his golf club in new jersey. listen. >> except it is like, highly confidential. >> yeah -- [laughter] >> it's secret information. look at this. this was done by the military and given to me. i think we can probably, right? >> i don't know. we will have to see. yeah, we'll have to try to -- >> declassify it. see, as president, i could have
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declassified it. now i can't, you know, but this is still a secret. isn't that interesting? it's so cool. >> all right, that recording cited in the special counsel's indictment against trump debunks another trump lie, that he was simply handling newspaper and magazine clippings as he told fox last week. but, look, the significance of that recording goes beyond trump potentially incriminating himself. the new york times reports that investigators working for special counsel jack smith have been quietly focusing on the site of that audio recording. trump's bedminster resort, with the concern that trump was hiding more documents there. according to the times, previously unreported details of the investigation showed that prosecutors working for mr. smith have subpoenaed surveillance footage from bedminster, much like they did from mar-a-lago, and thought fought a pitched battle with mr. trump's lawyers late last year about how to best search the new jersey property. a lot to break down here. let's bring in my panel for this conversation. renato mariotti is a former
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federal prosecutor. molly jong-fast, host of the fast politics podcast. she is also special correspondent for vanity fair. and kurt bardella, dnc adviser, and former house oversight committee spokesperson. it's great to have all three of you with us. so, you know, lots to unpack with what trump is experiencing this week, legally, renato. and i start with you. how much legal trouble does the fact that this investigation is still ongoing signal for trump, both in what's being reported about the miami grand jury receiving new subpoena material. and at the same time, the idea that this recording took place in bedminster, keeping the door open for possible action in that state. >> well, it's a difficult position for his defense team to be in, because they have to defend against, potentially, a moving target. they know what the charges are now but they could expand them in the future. and prosecutors always continue to investigate in charges.
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i've done that before actually against the real estate developer, myself, when i was a federal prosecutor, where, you know, there was one set of facts, and we, you know, issued an indictment on certain charges, we kept investigating and added charges later. i think what that means for trump is they have to be concerned, for example, that there might be another trove of documents in bedminster, new jersey. i think that's important for them. and i think for all of them, anybody who's involved in that false -- statements to law enforcement, they have to be -- [inaudible] definitely a concern for trump 's team, and i think it underscores how aggressive that is for the team. >> molly, i didn't think that's got enough attention this week. but basically, between that tape recording and the doj saying they can't find a so-called standing order trump was talking about, basically
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declassifying whatever the heck he was declassifying on his way out of the white house. he is running out of excuses. i mean, on one hand, he is going on fox and self incriminating himself. and then, you have the doj coming out and saying, there is no standing order that he has declassified and documents. >> yes, it's completely shocking that donald trump has once again lied. i am completely shocked. it's so unlike him. [laughter] but, yes, i mean, i give the trump narrative of declassifying documents. i mean, they were trophies. he like to show them off. he liked people to see that he had power. and he liked that they served his arguments, which is what we are seeing now. i think that it's a pretty, you know, we find him in a situation very much of his own making, right? he could have given back these documents at anytime. he has now been indicted twice. we think there will also be, even if there is not another federal indictment, there will definitely be, it seems like, an indictment coming out of georgia.
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>> and there would still be republicans, you know, kurt, who remained not exactly a profile encouraged when this tape came out, what did you see the republicans do? they didn't talk about the substance of the tape because they know they can't actually defend trump for what he said. instead, they are making the tape being leaked as the real issue here. >> yeah, here we go again. every time the republican party is presented with a viable off from away from donald trump and all things trumpism, which has proven to be a political loser for them over and over again, they refused to take. it the only conclusion that we can reach at this point is they don't want to get away from donald trump, from all the bellyaching we hear from republicans who go off the record, and who won't answer anything publicly, but privately or so, just made about trump's return. it doesn't really seem like any of them are willing to do the obvious thing that needs to be done to divorce themselves from donald trump and actually regain some political stability. instead, they would rather line
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up behind the walking demand in control white-collar criminal who just commits crimes as easily as he breathes, who lies as easily as he breathes, and all the while, they are trying to convince the rest of us that they are the party of law and order. it doesn't really add up. >> renato, we mentioned that the new york times in that times article, jack smith's investigator is paying a lot of attention to new jersey and the golf course in bedminster. and the recording that he made there, judge aileen cannon is handing down unfavorable rulings in florida, at least so far. can -- if that does happen, if she continues down that road of unfavorable rulings against jack smith, can he take his case to new jersey? and do you think we will see a possible search warrant executed there in light of this tape? >> it's interesting, i mean, certainly they've had the state
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tape for sometime. i suspect, by the way, that this was made by the defense team, after all the prosecutions, the longtime the defense team just got it in discovery. so by that i mean trump's team. look, i think there's a continued investigation there. if they were gonna get a third -- [inaudible] look, the investigation is still ongoing as we learned. we could bring in an indictment there. but it's gonna have to be on different facts than what we have in florida. so again, she's gonna do what she can do in florida. this will be over with potential obstruction regarding the documents. that's really what that indictment would have to focus on. >> let me get your reaction to this, molly, multiple outlets have reported that the person speaking is a lady by the name, trump is speaking to, a lady by the name of susie willis or wiles, who was a top trump 2024 campaign advisor. she's also reportedly met with investigators regarding the classified documents case.
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how does trump -- you know, work around this? >> well, she is really a sort of famous florida campaign operative. she was working for desantis in the desantis campaign lost her. so, i do think she is pretty adept. and i don't know that she ends up going -- it's certainly possible. look, trump has so much potential criminal exposure on so many different levels, that, you know, any single person could theoretically bring him down. but i wonder if susie wiles is the person because she's a pretty seasoned pro. and i think she probably, she would just switch from desantis to trump with the hopes of helping trump win. >> and, kurt, trump has a new strategy here. the way he wants to deal with this tape fiasco is saying, you know, the comments were just bravado. and i gotta say, for me, to hear trump kind of say that he was just full of hot air,
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bravado, or just blustering in of itself is quite telling. it sounds like he is getting desperate. if he's trying to diminish this by saying it is bravado. >> i think that if your defense, for being caught on tape, talking about the things he's talking about, well, i didn't really mean it, i was just kidding, i think you are in a lot of legal trouble. you don't oftentimes see donald trump tried to walk away from his own words. in fact, he's quite known for doubling down on the things that he says, for meaning every word that he says. that's kind of his -- whole shtick right? i'm gonna go up there, and say all these things that everyone else is too afraid to say out loud. now he's been caught red-handed, it's a smoking gun. and he's gonna try to convince all of us, will, i did not really mean when i said, i don't think that's really going to work. and i think that he knows deep down he is in so much trouble. i mean how many times are we gonna catch this guy on audiotape, admitting to committing crimes? >> the funny thing, to your
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point in reference to the georgia recording, now he walks around telling everyone, i'm a legitimate person. i'm a legitimate person, as a totally legitimate phone call, i'm a legitimate person. [laughter] renato, i gotta ask you about this reporting from the washington post, and let me get your reaction to it. this was new reporting for the washington post that trump tried to pressure governor doug doocy who was then at the time the arizona governor, to overturn the states presidential election results in 2020, saying if enough fraudulent votes could be found, it would overcome his loss in that state. the size and the scope, it seems, of jack smith's january six investigation is expanding. i mean, we have been focused on georgia. we know about the electoral electors scheme. but now, this new reporting from the washington post suggests that there's a lot more -- there's a lot of substance. >> well, i think what it shows is a pattern of behavior, ayman. in other words, a common scheme
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or plan. molly had mentioned the fulton county case. there, of course, he was pressuring brad raffensperger, the secretary of state. there is also a call to a man who is now deceased, who i believe there's a call to a speaker of the house in georgia. here we have another piece where he is engaging in similar behavior. he's trying to pressure the governor in arizona. we also know about his efforts for state legislatures in michigan. i really did see a kind of a scheme that is charged in more than just one state. i also think that evidence could be pretty relevant in the georgia case because it really goes to show his intent. it shows he wasn't just tumbling over his words. he wasn't mistaken when he was talking to brad raffensperger as part of the plan to overturn the election. >> really quickly, renato, where would you bring a case like that that is multi state, if you are talking about georgia, arizona, michigan, places where they may have been an elaborate scheme to overturn an election?
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washington, d. c., because that's where the president at the time potentially, allegedly orchestrating all of this? or do you go to different states? >> i would go to washington, d. c.. that's where the grand jury is that he is using. judges there are familiar with that grand jury, and they have been making rulings. that would make a lot of sense. but you know what? i would not rule out eight cases outside of georgia. it's not pass the time, four, example for arizona and michigan to conduct their own investigation. >> renato, molly, and kurt, stick around. we've got a lot more to discuss after the break. we're gonna discuss the 12 million dollar settlement fox just reached with a former producer. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ stay off the freeways! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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grossberg has settled a pair of lawsuits against her old networking tucker carlson for $12 million. grossberg sued fox, you may recall, its parent company, and a number of executives earlier this year, alleging that she was harassed, retaliated against, and set up to take the fall for dominion voting systems defamation suit against the network. fox denied her allegations. here's grossberg speaking to my colleague nicole wallace back in april. >> gradually i was shut out of
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meetings. i was mocked. i was eventually demoted. that's how it played out for me. and it got worse, and it got worse, and it got worse every time i spoke out. >> in her lawsuits, grossberg who also worked for maria bartiromo described fox as a toxic, misogynistic environment. and after the settlement was announced fox released a statement on their own, reading in part we are pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation. renato, molly, and kurt are back with me. and trying to think, guys, who's had a worse year than fox news. and it just seems like it's getting worse by the week. you know, i want to say, you know, abby grossberg put out a statement in which she said that she's heartened that fox news has taken her and her legal claim seriously. hopefully, based on these discussions with fox, that they somehow make this a positive step going forward. what are the chances, molly, and that this whole ordeal
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actually makes fox turn the page into a different direction? even if we hadn't seen that on air, at least for the employees behind the scenes. >> look, this is not the first lawsuit fox has had. it's not the first lawsuit it has had this year. it's not the first harassment suit a woman has brought against fox. i mean, back with gretchen carlson, you know, fox has really had a lot of long history of having women have terrible experiences working their. i mean, you know, movies have been made about it, books have been written about it. so, i am not super surprised. i am not super hopeful. i think the message here is that litigation actually works against fox, against large companies. and so, i guess that's useful. i would also say that, you know, fox is, you know, they are not bulletproof, right? they can in fact, and they did fire tucker carlson.
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so, you know, i do think ultimately, it kind of works. >> yes, so, renato, were you surprised to hear that fox settled with her? we know that this lawsuit was at least one of the reasons why the network decided to part ways with tucker carlson who was their biggest star, biggest moneymaker, you know? at the end of the day, it was just too much for them to handle. >> well, as molly said, you know, she's just one of the latest of female employees at fox who have talked openly about harassment and filed a lawsuit, that successful lawsuit which gotten very substantial settlements. if you recall, we mentioned tucker carlson. before tucker carlson, you had bill o'reilly, right? he was known for harassing the female employees working for him. producers working for him -- so, this is something where fox has a history. and what that means is, if you go to trial, you can expect them to come in and create more
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risk, more litigation risk. it also means that in the future, and they are gonna have trouble getting employees. i mean, you can't drop your workforce -- and i think that in order for them to have an environment where they don't have, potentially, a lot of litigation, for the people working there, they need to do changes, take some of the bad apples out like carlson, and transform the culture which frankly doesn't seem like they are doing. >> yes, to renato's point, kurt, tucker carlson's replacement, jesse waters, is not exactly a beacon of journalistic integrity. >> you know, there is something i have been thinking about, here and i want everyone, every woman who's watching this to consider this. fox news is the propaganda microphone for the parties and the political people in power in this country who believe that women should not be able to exercise control over their own body, who believe that
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women their role is to be subservient to men, who believe that women are second-class citizens in this country. is it any wonder that when you go and work at a place that every single day broadcast and promotes and elevates that type of misogyny and sexism that at some point it may be turned on you. i want to be very clear, nobody deserves that. nobody deserves to be in a workplace culture that treats you with harassment and disrespect, and makes you uncomfortable. but just consider, if you are at fox news right now, and you are on a program that is every single day, helping promote the war on women in america, what are you being part and parcel to? it really shouldn't take the behavior to be turned on you, that you are helping elevating, that you are helping make acceptable for you to want to step up and say something. so, the next time you are covering a story, or producing a segment about an accuser, or a supreme court justice saying you are sexually harassed,
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about a presidential candidate who said it was okay to grab you by the you know what, about a person who came forward and said, the former president of the u.s. once sexually assaulted and abuse me. and that's produces a segment of tearing that person down. put yourself in their shoes, because at a place like that you might be there someday. >> kurt bardella, molly jong-fast, renato mariotti, always a pleasure to have the three of you on, greatly appreciated as always. coming up -- the supreme court rules against a fringe election theory, but it doesn't mean we are out of the woods just yet. i'll explain. ♪ ♪ ♪ she wants and save on every perk. sadie is moving to the big city and making moves on her plan, too. apple one, on. now she's got plenty of entertainment for the whole ride. finally there! hot spot, on. and she's fully connected before her internet is even installed. (sadie) hi, mom! (mom) how's the apartment? (vo) introducing myplan. get exactly what you want, only pay for what you need. act now and get it for $25 when you bring your phones. it's your verizon.
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was unconstitutional. state lawmakers cited the independents legislator theory in their defense. and they basically argued that state courts do not have that power to rule on matters relating to federal elections. now that fringe theory by the way, is exactly the same one that trump aligned lawyer john eastman tried to use to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. yet, in a 63 decision this week, the supreme court ruled that state legislatures do not have unchecked power over election rules in this country. meaning that the court actually made it harder for republicans, and specifically someone like a donald trump, to overturn the 2024 election results. and that's undoubtedly good news for our democracy. but those celebrating this surprise ruling should not get too comfortable. the conservative court only ruled against the most extreme version of the independent state legislator theory.
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in fact, they actually left the door open for more legal challenges down the road. in this majority decision, chief justice john roberts wrote that state courts must act within, quote, the bounds of ordinary judicial review on election matters. and that they do not have free reign. that is the sticking point here. ordinary judicial review, in my opinion, is a rather vague turn of a phrase. and it will likely allow future election challenges to be brought before the court. and the next time, the justice might not rule as favorably as they did this time. joining me to discuss this hour, anderson clayton, chair of the north carolina democratic party. and malcolm kenyatta, democratic state representative in pennsylvania. it's great to have both of you with us. anderson, i'll start with you. it was republicans in your state who actually brought this case all the way up to the supreme court. and the truth is they hold a lot of power in north carolina at the moment. they've got control over both state legislatures, the state
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supreme court, what is your reaction to this week's decision, both in terms of the impact it will have on north carolina going forward, but broadly speaking across the country in the long run? >> you know, i think republicans finally have a taste of their own medicine, from their own party, which i'm excited about, and overjoyed over the fact that we're gonna have an opportunity to have our state legislature redraw these maps because we do know that when the legislature had drawn them originally, we were left with a ten and four congressional district, which is not representative of the 50/50 split that's actually in north carolina right now. currently under an independent judiciary -- independently drawn maps we actually have 77 congressional representation which is much more equitable for the state of north carolina. and so, i am really excited to see this decision come down, and republicans honestly get to see the fact that, you know, partisan gerrymandering is not something that either party wants to align themselves with. >> representative kenyatta, i want to get your thoughts on
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the political implications of moore versus harper. this ruling is obviously important because it is a win for democratic norms. but it also seems like some of the issues surrounding partisan gerrymandering have actually been left unanswered. do you think that we could see another case about state power and federal elections back at the supreme court especially given the fact that donald trump is running again and he is not committed to accepting the outcome of the elections in 2024. >> yeah, ayman, great to be with you. when we take a step back and think about the fact that this court reviews are constantly necessary for states all around the country who are going out of their way to -- the process to gerrymander -- because they can't win the argument and i've said it before. but all folks can -- there's a list of who to hate, a list of things to ban and
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they may find some marginalized group to blame for all the problems in this country and that's not a party that can win elections with these issues. and so, the only way they stay in power is by trying to make sure that voters don't get to fairly choose the representative and the supreme court has given a big middle finger to traditional jurisprudence, democracy, and it's terrifying that you have three justices who are willing to accept this extreme version of states power and i don't think that the other votes are sided with us this time are going to stop. >> yeah, and they have demonstrated that with some of the other issues, we're gonna talk about that later on in the program, with just how systematically have been at chipping away at some of these rights, whether it's abortion rights, gay rights, affirmative action. but, anderson, i want to go back to something you said in your first answer, and that is about the gerrymandering.
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because you've got a supreme court ruling that came out this week and it's not going to make a difference in your sleep at this point, as i understand it. because, i believe, back in april, the republicans in your state supreme court. they ruled that partisan gerrymandering is not illegal and for now the republican super majority in the state legislature is coming up with a new congressional map that could give republicans an advantage by ten seats. what is your party doing to fight this? and other election related rulings from conservative states supreme court that have come out? >> we know the number one thing the democratic party in north carolina has to do this year is ensure that we are contesting every state house and senate race. as representative malcolm kenyatta can attest, we know that state legislators are the most important front line of defense for democracy right now. and we desperately have to make sure that we are fighting and contesting every's seat. as a state party --
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and you are in north carolina, please go to our website and sign up to run with us today. the other thing we are really trying to do is to ensure that people know what their rights are at the voting sites this year. our supreme court also delivered a repeal of the voter i. d. law that came out from 2018. and so, we are desperately trying to make sure that college campuses are prepared to have their i.d.s count is real i.d.s to vote in the election cycle. and also ensure that folks really understand what we are up against in 2024 because every single fight for our rights are on the line. >> yes, i was gonna say and i don't think it's just in north carolina. it's safe to say it's gonna happen across the country. anderson clayton thank you very much. and malcolm kenyatta, please stick around. we're gonna talk to you again at the top of the hour. coming up -- ahead, conservatives decades long campaign to destroy affirmative action, finally won. we're gonna break it down for you. ♪ ♪ ♪ just by switching. ooooh, let me put a reminder on my phone. on the top of the pile! oh. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ when i was diagnosed with h-i-v,
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succeed, try and try again. that has been the guiding mantra of the conservative legal movement for decades, floating the case before the supreme court, get a couple of justices on your side, and then use their opinions as a guide to shock the nation for a case that gives the justices everything needed for them to finally take action. it is a strategy that actually predates the trump era and this specific court. but it became super charged with this new conservative super majority. republicans waited for decades to overturn roe v. wade, bringing several unsuccessful cases before the court, until finally, succeeding last term with the dobbs decision. think about how christian activists first brought the plight of a colorado baker, who did not want to bake a gay wedding cake, to the court in 2018. and then, they used a suggestion from clarence thomas that that cake should actually have been considered on free
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speech grounds rather than a religious liberty test. five years later, we had the 303 creative versus ellis decision, effectively making lgbtq+ individuals second-class citizens. now, that same cynical perseverance has now led to the gutting of affirmative action and college admissions. since roe was overturned, it is clear this court has no deterrence about undoing long established precedent. and believe me, there are mountains of precedent upholding the constitutionality of affirmative action in america, specifically because of the 50-year republican project aimed at destroying that policy. so, let's look at how we got to this point, because this is the playbook conservatives are using for anything they don't like or approve of, even if it takes decades to overturn and see those results. affirmative action, as a term, actually entered the public lexicon back in 1935, with the wagner act, a federal law that gave workers the right to form and join unions.
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it was used to describe the process by which an employee would be given their job back if the national labor relations board found they have been fired for union activity. john f. kennedy was the first president to link that term specifically with policies meant to advance racial equality. and in the years after, the term started to be associated with education, a connection made thanks to the civil rights movement. that's a nation of dr. martin luther king jr. in 1968 was a turning point. students demanded their colleges redouble their efforts to have students and student bodies that actually better reflect american society. as the new york times reports, less than four weeks after dr. king's death, harvard's dean of admissions at the time, well, he announced a commitment to enrolling a substantially higher number of african americans. the following years admitted class included a 76% increase
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in black students. and you better believe that conservatives immediately began sharpening their teeth. the first supreme court case challenging the constitutionality of affirmative action programs and in education came just a decade ago later. in 1970 the supreme court heard regions of the university of california versus bakke. at the time, you see davis -- -- qualified minority students. and -- denied admissions by the -- despite having higher test scores and -- sued. ultimately, the supreme court decided that the quota system used was unconstitutional. but it also ruled that -- could have a compelling interest in the education benefits of having a diverse student body, which allowed them to consider race in the
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admissions process, so long as they considered one of many factors or -- while conservatives, of course, to outrage and spent decades shopping for the perfect self-described victim of affirmative action to bring future challenges. 2003, for example, conservative activists conservative activists seized upon white people who were denied admissions to the university of michigan, and presented a case before the court. those decisions narrowed affirmative action policies slightly, making it illegal to use point based systems with regard to race in college admissions. you get, in the end, a court again reaffirmed the constitutionality of the broader policy. so, conservatives tried in 2013. and in 2016, a white woman named abigail fischer, who was denied admission to the university of texas, again and again, the court ruled affirmative action was constitutional. justice kennedy, writing for the majority at the time, stated that the attainment of a
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diverse student body serves values beyond race alone, including enhanced classroom dialogue, and the lessening of racial isolation and stereotypes. -- but conservatives, well, they went back to the drawing board, continue shopping for the perfect plaintiffs, and we return to the court this past past term, with two cases, students for fair admissions versus harvard college, and students for fear admissions versus the university of north carolina. by the way, that group named in both of those cases, students for fair admissions, well it's a right-wing activist group. it's lawyers argued that admissions programs at harvard and u.n.c. -- violated the equal protection clause at the 14th amendment, by discriminating against asian american applicants and in providing favorable treatments to students from other minority background. and finally, john roberts and
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his extreme colleagues said enough. deciding to end affirmative action as we know it. so, this try and try again mentality, honestly, it's not going anywhere. as we said earlier, those of us who breathe that sigh of relief after the supreme court did not end american democracy this past week with the moore versus harper ruling, well they shouldn't rest easy. if we know anything, it is this conservative activist court has demonstrated time and time again, in fact, too many times now, that settled law isn't really settled in their eyes. it's just settled for the moment, not forever. and there will be another more perfect case to threaten democracy soon enough in this country. we will be right back with professor jelani cobb to break it all down. it all down. good thing metamucil gummies are an easy way to get prebiotic, plant-based fiber. with the same amount of fiber as 2 cups of broccoli. metamucil gummies the easy way to get your daily fiber.
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and of course, dean of the columbia university journalism school. he is also an msnbc political contributor. jelani, it's great to see you. again thanks for making time for us. i want to start with something you wrote in the new yorker this week that the scale of what has been lost is difficult to assess in that moment. your thoughts on this decision and its long term impact on our country? >> well, let me begin -- this will unfold, you know, over the course of years and decades. but there will likely be other strategies to try to achieve some measure of diversity and representation. what we've seen from the experience of other institutions and other places is that you don't want to impose proxies in those other kinds of approaches, which tend not to be as effective, as being able to take race into consideration. and so, there's a lot of downstream effects that we could think of reasonable
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possibilities. one, we already know there's a long existing wealth gap between white families and black families, in that white families have roughly ten times the wealth of black families on average. and so, we also know that a ten-year college degree has a lifelong wage earning implications. it greatly enhances your lifelong wage earning. so, we would expect that the wealth gap would potentially expand as opposed to contracting. we might also see things like more significant health disparities. we know for a fact that black doctors tend to give better care to black patients than white doctors do, which has been established by study after study after study. not at all unlikely, but you want to end up with fewer black doctors, along with fewer black engineers, lawyers and some other professions, fewer black homeowners which will have implications for people's retirement. and so, all of the downstream
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effects, and that's just a few. there are a lot more that we could anticipate. and all these downstream effects, you know point to really serious ramifications with the decision that was handed down last week. >> how universities suffer specifically? i mean, in the nine states where affirmative action had already been blocked, for example like california, which is often cited by conservative -- minority admissions dropped significantly. are you concerned that that is also gonna happen nationwide? and how universities actually suffer? >> sure. so, that's a high possibility that will happen. and, you know, the point that i made in that piece in the new yorker was that you know when clarence thomas wrote that he didn't understand what diversity meant and seem to have no meaning i pointed out that there are only two people, in the 116-year history of the
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supreme court, who understood what it was like to be a black person in a segregated school. that was him and thurgood marshall. and that the court benefited from having that diversity of perspective and that insight, especially for a body that was charged with establishing the guidelines, legal guidelines for the entire nation. we will have less of that, potentially, less of that kind of breadth of experience on college campuses across the country, and that could be one reasonable outcome of that decision. >> let me ask you about my thesis in this segment, which is, you know, the conservative legal movement going after affirmative action over decades. it has been a 50-year project, and that seems to be their playbook when it comes t -- abortion rights and, as we saw, with affirmative action. talk to me a little bit about this relentless effort to get their way, and the way they go about it, playing the long game.
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and that for us or others now, they should not think of any decision that the supreme court makes as being settled or oppressive? >> sure. but the irony here, and i will use that term, but the irony here is that this is all a response to what people call judicial activism. in the 1960s and 1970s. and the accusation that the warren court was led by chief just this hurdle earl warren was too aggressive in overturning long-standing precedent. and saying they were trying to commit social engineering from the bench. and the response that you've seen is a very heavy-handed form of social engineering, to create a society in which there are not reproductive rights, where reproductive rights are severely impeded. a society in which diversity and representation, particularly for groups that we
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think about this in affirmative action, we have ruled out taking into account the only category that people used to exclude people. and people were excluded on the basis of gender, but this ruling has not affected gender. but we have decades, it's not centuries in which institutions would not admit people on the basis of race. and that is the only thing you can take into account now. we can consider people from the basis of geography, another matter where you grew up, and you had nothing to do with, it has nothing to do with anything that you can control, that people may have assessments about you, may contribute to who you are as an individual. perfectly fine to consider geography in trying to feel that diverse class. but not okay to consider one of the factors, race, that is was profoundly warped -- idea of america democracy from the outset of the idea of american democracy. >> yes, your daddies checkbook
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matters more than your race and the admissions process to some of these universities. jelani cobb, it's always a pleasure, thank you so much for joining us. greatly appreciated. >> stick around -- the second hour of ayman begins right after a quick break. ♪ ♪ ♪ still living with odors? get back in there and freshen instantly with new febreze air mist. febreze's new, finer mist floats longer in the air to fight even your toughest odors. so long stinky smells and hello amazing freshness. discover the new febreze scents today!
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