i want to bring in devin dwyer.is sweeping in nature, given the 40 years of legal precedent that allowed colleges and universities to use affirmative action in trying to make their student body more diverse. >> it sure is. this is a seat change in american law and american society. it's a big victory for critics of affirmative action. a big set back, as terry was saying, for university, which have relied on this program to diversity their campuses. judge sotomayor described the role it played in her career, dissenting with the three liberal justices. she said this rolls back momentous progress. it strips out almost all uses of race in college admissions. this will force colleges now headed into the fall college application season to rethink their strategies for diversity on campus. that will affect every high school student this fall, david? >> devin dwyer with us. i want to bring in mary bruce. the white house is tracking this. any statement? >> reporter: david, i'm told the white house is still digging through thi

here's abc's senior washington reporter devin dwyer. >> reporter: after more than 45 years, affirmativestill stirs up deep emotions. >> i hope that i would be seen as more than just my race. >> reporter: should an individual's race be a factor in college admissions? >> schools like harvard, other elite institutions as well, have a reparative responsibility to generational african americans. >> i don't think it's fair to use the race and potentially hold it against them if that's not something they want. >> reporter: elite universities, once bastions of white privilege in america, have relied on affirmative action to diversify their campuses for decades. generations of students of color say it's lifted them up too. >> our ancestors built this school, literally. these schools need to take that into account and all of the trauma that has come with 400 years of systemic oppression. >> reporter: today, a bitterly divided supreme court reversed course. >> this is one of those supreme court opinions that will go down in history because it's not just changing american law, it's changing america

abc's devin dwyer recently got a tour of california based upside foods where meat is cultivated.n there. yeah. so if you look at this, this is a approximately a 200 plus liter tank at and we take cells from a chicken or an egg takes two weeks to grow the equivalent of one chicken, a thousand chickens or 100,000 chickens. so you're saying in this factory you can make more meat faster and cleaner than an average farmer? well, ultimately, yes. the company says lab grown meat could be instrumental in helping feed the world's growing population, even as meat demand rises while using a fraction of the land. and water of animal farming. helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. critics argue it's no silver bullet, with the potential for major socio economic implications and questions about how the meat is labeled. many experts say more study is needed, more research and just caution, i think that a lot of companies are going to use or present the best case scenarios . as for how the lab grown chicken tastes, all right. my first bite of cultivated meat, it's chicken. it'll taste like c

dean at the yale jackson school of global affairs, asha rangappa and senior washington reporter devin dwyerh this decision. this is about the drawing of election maps. so how did the judges reach this ruling? this is a remarkable decision, diane, in a major case from the state of alabama involving election maps drawn after the 2020 census, those maps drawn by the state's republican legislature were challenged as being racially biased against black voters in that state, which make up about 27% of the electorate. only one of the seven districts in alabama is majority black. lower courts had said the state needs to add another district. and today the supreme court, in a 5 to 4 decision often written by chief justice john roberts, joined by brett kavanaugh and the three liberal justices, said , in fact, that alabama's map was discriminatory, that it violated section two of the voting rights act, that landmark law passed after the civil rights movement to prevent against discrimination in voting . they said the lower courts properly applied the precedent and that that map needs to be redrawn to

let's bring in devin dwyer because just for a little bit more clarity, there were two separate casesought a case forward and it had to do with fairness but at the end of the day, it was the rights of the states. those states that challenged this, they are the ones who prevail. >> reporter: six republican-led states brought the challenge to the biden student debt relief plan. it's a significant sub headline here. the court offering the ability of misery and others took to the biden administration to block the spread on a rather tenuous basis. the court today saying that because the nation's largest student loan service is based in missouri, it has ties to missouri, effectively it gave missouri what's called standing, the ability to bring this case. the service would have suffered significant losses if the biden administration erased all the sleuths of the court said it would be impacted, missouri would be impacted. the bottom line in all of this, students with all that debt on their hands, federal student loan debt, will soon have to begin repaying those loans. there's been a moratori