so i, for a one, and left regarding ketanji brown jackson, in alina kagan, as they bear a burden thator the strength to bear. ketanji brown jackson will serve 30 or so years on the supreme court and will one day, surely, be in the majority. but for now, she will be writing in eloquent dissent as only she can. when the republican supreme court decided to forbid colleges from admitting students based entirely and solely on the color of their skin, sunday no college actually does, emmy award winning actress alfre woodard agreed to read justice jackson 's powerful dissent in a special msnbc podcast. >> our country has never been colour-blind. given the lengthy history of state sponsored race based preferences in america, to say that anyone is now victimized if a college considers whether that legacy of discrimination has an equally advantaged it's applicants, fails to acknowledge the well documented, intergenerational transmission of inequality that still plagues our citizenry. with let them eat cake obliviousness, today the majority pulls the rip cord and announces color blindness for al

well, justice ketanji brown jackson talked about that claim in her dissent, writing, those who demandut race refuse to see, much less solve for the elephant in the room, the race linked disparities that continue to impede achievement to our nation's greatest potential. the disconnect from reality that informed this decision will have consequences far beyond the reaches of a college campus. the new york times is already siding royal lawyers, diversity experts, and political activists across the spectrum, warning that, quote, the ruling will discourage corporations from putting in place ambitious diversity policies in hiring and promotion, or prompting them to rein in existing policies by encouraging lawsuits under the existing legal standard. now, the court, well, it was not done. on friday, the justices ruled that the act does not allow the second secretary of education in the power to cancel student loan debt in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. this is a move that stops president biden's ambitious student loan forgiveness plan in its tracks, and at least 43 million americans still

case dissent, justice ketanji brown jackson said, beaming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life do you, sir, trust the colleges will continue to offer educational opportunity to a racially diverse student body? and what happens if many don't? >> i don't because explicit racism and implicit bias still exist throughout all aspects of american life, and it exists in our higher education institutions, which is why affirmative action was needed in the first place. what's very troubling about this decision is we are not allowing universities to take race into account, with regard to admissions, we are allowing them to continue a legacy admissions process that disproportionately supports the wealthy and white individuals. and that is why we have a bill to cancel legacy admissions at all higher education institutions, because america is about a democracy, which means the playing field should be equitable and even for everyone. and that is not the case. and i've said this the other day, you have people from historically marginalized communities, communities of color, and african

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and effectively, if you read through justice ketanji brown jackson's dissent, she digs into the historynd why the this program, from the exception of race conscious admissions programmed in 1960s to 1978 when you get the decision that limits the scope of the effects of race conscience admissions. wee never seen a system of higher education in america that was equitable. >> and you have clarence thomas saying in his concurrence, that parents today shouldn't pay for the sin of their ancestors. that might be true but it misses the point of what is happening today. >> it is continuing and it comes down to two ideas of how to get to a point where students of all color will be treated equally. and the question is how much do you take into account of race to get to that point. and the philosophy behind some of the justices who were part of the path ort, not louis powell who wrote it but harry blackman who said you have to take race into account to get beyond race and that is the philosophy of justice jackson as you were saying. whereas clarence thomas has felt that any kind of consideration of

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of course, or first black woman supreme court justice ketanji brown jackson. >> >> thank you for having done your homework with our honorary members. we are excited to have seven of them, including the ones that you just mentioned. yes. >> and what would you say was the unifying theme for all of the years inductees? >> this year's inductees are a stellar class. many of them are firsts, and their respective professions. you mentioned several of them in addition to rashida jones, in addition to justice ketanji brown jackson and deborah lee. we also had -- a president of warner television group. we had barney jenkins, the undersecretary of arms control and security with the department of state. we have phyllis newhouse, a philanthropist, an entrepreneur, and investor. we have to micah -- breaking record after record in the wnba. in addition to the three again that you already mentioned. the unifying force is really that they not only are first, but they are all in their own ways have given back to the community. they care about the issues the delta cares about. we have been on the front of

the same paper has a glowing profile of the newest supreme court justice, ketanji brown jackson. joining us is jonathan turley. put the articles up side-by-side. article on justice clarence thomas, his membership in the horatio, and brown jackson in her first term, she came to play. how are you treated seems to depend which side of the political aisle your ideology lands. >> well, john, there's never been any evidence of self-awareness of the bias in this coverage. it is endless. the coverage of liberals on the court, they tend to condemn conservatives, and this is an endless loop. what is really remarkable, clarence thomas is one of the most inspiring stories of anyone on government. he grew up speaking gulla, he grew up in a home with dirt floor and no plumbing, and made it from the humble origins to the supreme court and the smithsonian would not include him among the famous black americans. they included anita hill, but only him after an outcry. that shows the sort of bias that is really baked in in washington against clarence thomas. >> john: one of the biggest digs in the "

the two black justices on the court, justice clarence thomas and justice ketanji brown jackson had a really blistering debate that we don't usually see in decisions. here is part of what justice thomas wrote. he said, quote, justice jackson uses her broad observations about statistical relationships between race and select measures of health, wealth, and well-being to label all blacks as victims. her desire to do so is unfathomable to me. it is an insult to individual achievement and cancerous to young minds seeking to push through barriers. their race is not to blame for everything, good tor bad, that happens in their lives. what is your response to that? >> i mean, what justice clarence thomas wrote there, i believe, is profoundly disrespectful to -- i just think it was profoundly disrespectful to his colleague. it includes sweeping assumptions about her world view, whereas when you look at what the response was from justice ketanji brown, we saw that her descent was grounded in fact, it was grounded in the facts of the case. it did not disparage clarence thomas' overall world view

meanwhile, justice ketanji brown jackson wrote in her dissent, deeming race irrelevant in law does notit so in life. how does each side characterize their position? >> yeah, this just shows the huge stock differences that exist in the law and probably, in society as a whole. along how the constitution handles race and specifically, how the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, which, of course, was enacted after the civil war to ensure that freed black people had equal rights, what a sent does that mean the law is equal to everyone which that is the story, which is the position taking by justice thomas, or whether there is a promise of equality there, that they are, for there's some room to allow for measures like affirmative action, that would allow black people to get some sort of, a step up, that would help them to get a quality. which justice thomas does not think is lawful. but obviously, justice jackson sinks very much is. >> let's talk about another big case, the big one involving a christian web designer, just to sort of sonoma your wrote in her dissent, the immediate

. >> well, justice ketanji brown jackson who the color is referring to was an extraordinarily impressive nominee. actually was the most -- in the, polls north of that to be the, judge the most popular supreme court nominee in many years. it has been extraordinarily impressive on the bench. she got pelted with got your questions from senators who were doing its they would have something to tweet. then as a matter of serious jurisprudence, someone asked her whether -- what is a woman and she said i'm not a biologist. i think that you knew quite well that the question was not a serious question. the question is just an attempt to get on fox news or something like that. for five seconds of video. justice jackson is an impressive figure. she has been especially good in her first year on the bench. the questions that she asks from the bench, we saw the impact of some of her efforts in the assault of its decisions on affirmative action. justice jackson asked this question during the arguments. it was really compelling. she said look, there are two essays for somebody -- people applying universi

and the understanding that the supreme court shared in their committee has opinion and the ketanji brown jackson in her dissent is right. we are a society that wants our country, that what we look like does not impede opportunity but we do not live in it and that is why we will fight together and unify an outlet those who try to fit our communities against one another to succeed. but that, i went to ask damon humid -- with that, i want to ask damon hewitt. >> this is a challenging day, not just for students, not just advocates but a challenging day for this nation. today, the united states supreme court got it wrong. my organization was founded by president kennedy in 1963, a pivotal summer for this civil-rights unit. it was founded with a racially integrated group of lawyers came together to put skin in the game to advance civil rights. it is not even clear organization could have been founded or floors over the hills -- founded or floors over those years. this court decided not to fully overrule the president. it did not affirm a long-standing president --prece dent. and did something in the m

justice -- sonia sotomayor joined by fellow liberal elena kagan and ketanji brown jackson wrote a blistering both the mississippi supreme court and their own fellow conservative justices. characterizing their decisions as, quote, a signal from the mississippi supreme court that it intends to carry on with business as usual no matter what this court said in flowers. by allowing this important make the same mistakes applying the same standards, this court acquiesces the mississippi supreme court's noncompliance. today, this court tells the mississippi supreme court that it has called our bluff. this court isn't willing to do what is necessary to defend its own precedent. in 2023, the supreme court -- and the precedent it set, that 2019 decision in flowers was hailed for sending a message to the lower courts to be vigilant about racial bias in the criminal justice system. but now? as justice so to this on your sotomayor puts it, as this court refused to intervene, a black and we put to death in the state of mississippi based on the decision of a jury that was plausibly selected based on race. t

and the docent, they quote soda mayor and ketanji brown jackson because they get it wrong, they mischaracterizeas well. rachel: i want to read from neil gorsuch come he wants to be clear on that point. in his particular case, colorado does not seek to ensure the sale of goods or services on equal terms. it is not about serving someone who walks in. this web designer says i have lgbt q clients and we work together well. it's not about serving, the court wants to say it is not about the messenger, you got to serve the person but it is about the message. if you feel as an artist you're being forced to endorse a message, that's when the court said to distract to prevent. will: i believe that was the cake designer. i was confusing the website with cake designer, the cake design was asked to make something completely -- it was graphic. joe: he was selling already made cake, it was what he was selling on the cake. rachel: the web designer argued the same thing, i took web design work for people all the time, i have boilerplate stuff but that is something else. any thoughts on how you think this could

let's look at justice clarence thomas and how he responded to justice ketanji brown jackson for accusinget them eat cake. in his opinion, he wrote, as she sees things, we're all linked trapped in fundamentally racist society. that's a pretty barbed comment to make about a colleague. what do you make of this increasingly polarized language coming from the justices often aimed at one another? >> i don't think they can hide anymore that their fundamental agreements effect even their personal relationships. often justices will tell people publicly, we get along beautifully, we get along so well. sooner or later, decisions like the one that we just saw on affirmative action and some of the others going back to dobbs, overturning roe v. wade, they're bound to have an impact on those personal relationships. and truthfully, the personal relationships don't matter. it's the results and the conservatives, the republicans have the numbers. they've got six of the nine justices and until the composition of the court changes, i don't think the ideology of many of these big decisions will change either

justice ketanji brown jackson wrote in her discents, deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. justice thomas says justice jackson's world view falls flat at each step. the divide was clear when court ruled colorado graphic designer refusal to create certain lgbtq expressive content was protected by first amendment. it was called a setback for gay rights. for biden, hope is he can turn the legal losses to voter motivation. >> alexandria: the president expressed he is looking to turn around the term bidenomics to a positive to sell his administration and their economic policies. shannon. >> shannon: we'll talk more. alexandria hoff, thank you. joining us is republican presidential candidate, former un ambassador, nikki haley. i want to start with france. word of attack on mayor's home and hundreded arrested. when you were ambassador to the un, you had differences with macron. any words of advice to the president there or the people of france? >> he has to make sure he listens to his people and brings calm. we have seen it happen in the united states and end of the da

supreme court justice ketanji brown jackson is said what is a woman triggering a confirmation hearings. >> can you provide a definition for the word woman? >> can i provide a definition? >> yeah. >> i can't. >> you can't? >> not in this context. i am not a biologist. >> the word woman is so unclear and controversial that you can't give me a definition? >> you are appointed to the supreme court of the united states as a woman. you don't know what a woman is? i am not a baker, but i can identify a fruitcake. what's interesting about this particular mind virus as elon musk would put it it is become a global pandemic. in my country our politicians believe women, clearly according to them, are innocent. >> can a woman have a penis? >> they can't. >> i have made it really clear that the vast majority of people will have the same gender as the biological sex but a small number won't. >> women cannot have a penis? >> clearly. >> quite clearly. really? again? i can't believe any of this really needs to be explained especially to political leaders. prime minister was reduced to rubble on the ver

the consideration of race as one factor but also commenting on the newest justice, justice ketanji brown jackson, and her reminder of a form of originalism about the 14th amendment and how that was a reconstruction-era event, and it was intended to do things like what affirmative action did. >> justice jackson delivered this term several distance -- dissents that were of historic determination, particularly claiming the court got it all wrong in claiming the original meaning of the 14th amendment was race blind list will live on in history -- race blindness will live on in history. i said her view is not only right but will historically be vindicated and will one day be again the law of the land. the problem of race in this country is not going to go away because we pretend it is not important. it justice robert tinsley says the way to get rid of racism is simply to disregard race, and i think justice jackson rightly said that is very much like "let them eat cake." it is lovely to think that making race irrelevant in law will make it irrelevant in life, but we all know better. certainly the purp

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but also the big star was justice ketanji brown jackson, who was inducted as an honorary member of theority incorporated. that was the big news that broke that she is now our sweet so roar, and we're so excited. dave jolly, christina greer, thank you very much deltas, you won the week. that's the week. all in with chris hayes starts now. now. >> good evening from new york. i'm ali velshi in for chris hayes. as voting is underway from to determine the republican nominee for president in 2024, donald trump is going to be on trial.

you had justice sotomayor and justice ketanji brown jackson who wrote her own opinion, and they basically said we don't live in a colorblind society right now, there is still discrimination and these programs helped ward that off. but they were on opposite sides. if you think about the lgbtq case that you mentioned, there was a web designer, she did not want to create websites, new websites to celebrate same-sex marriages because she didn't believe -- that went against her religious beliefs. again, the conservatives led by neil gorsuch, they saw that case as really about the first amendment, she couldn't be forced to create a product with a message that she didn't agree with, whereas the liberals on the other side said this doesn't have to do with the first amendment. this has to do with discrimination. again, they were in loggerheads. and in that student loan case, you had the conservatives saying congress has to give its authority before you forgive billions of dollars of debt, and you had the liberals saying congress did give its authority, you're just not listening. the way you're loo

justice sotomayor joined by fellow liberal justices kagen and ketanji brown jackson wrote a blisteringdissent criticizing both the mississippi supreme court and her own fellow justices characterizing their decisions as, quote, a signal from the mississippi supreme court it intends to carry on with business as usual no matter what this court said in flowers, by allowing the same court to make the same mistakes applying the same standard this court acwes ss the mississippi's supreme court defiance. today this court tells the mississippi supreme court that it has called our bluff. in 2023 the supreme court is ignoring its own work and the precedent it set. that 2019 decision in flowers was hailed for sending a message to lower courts to be vigilant about racial bias in the criminal justice system. but now as justice sotomayor puts it because this court refuses to intervene, a black man will be put to death in the state of mississippi based on the decision of a jury that was plausibly selected based on race. that is a tragedy. and that does it for us tonight. alex is going to be back here

in her dissent, judge ketanji brown jackson accused them of letting them eat cake obliviousness deeminge it so in life. >> i do think we can anticipate seeing a significant drop-off in attendance for black and latino students and native american students, native hawaiian students, and some groups of asian american students. >> reporter: daniel holly, president of mount holyoke college, believes the supreme court's decision will make it harder to achieve diversity. and, she says, the ruling is not entirely clear. >> it will be hard for colleges and universities the first few years. there will be lots more litigation as people will say, there will be lawyers. >> reporter: what's the practical effect? nine states have already banned the use of race-based affirmative action in admissions, and some research shows enrollment of underrepresented communities declined even when other factors such as class were weighed more heavily. but some critics of affirmative action say some well-intentioned programs have gone awry. >> when you start to evaluate people almost explicitly and unilaterally via

. >> the newest member, ketanji brown jackson, this is her first term on the court.we learn about her? >> there were times she was willing to go it alone, being the lone dissent. there were times she formed alliances with justice gorsuch, on four opinions she joined with him. i think it shows she'll have a unique and different impact on the court. it doesn't mean she won't side with the liberals, especially on the big social issues, but you might see surprises. >> she spoke up quite a bit, also, during arguments. >> yes, and always so prepared. >> very well prepared. thank you, laura jarrett. we're glad to put those behind us after all the work and uncertainty that faced us for weeks. >>> let's turn to arizona now where it has been ten years since the yarnell hill fire that killed 19 members of an elite central arizona firefighting crew. lindsey reiser was there, covered it in 2013. xi reports on the lessons still being learned. >> reporter: ten years ago prescott, arizona, a small city 90 minutes north of phoenix became known for what it lost. 19 highly trained gran

. >> i think this goes back to what ketanji brown jackson said which is there's the impact of race inhen there's the way you approach it in the law. for legacy admits they had a head start in this race and the reality is that they are more likely to be white. the institution discriminated against african-americans for the longest. the first three african-americans who came in the 1850s had to be expelled because their white classmates refused to take classes with them. so, it was never necessarily about merit or whether you qualified to go to the institution. it was about whether the institution was willing to have you there. privilege compounds like money in a savings, account, right? there's a population right now that has this advantage. and so you have to address it. we have seen the impact at other universities. and the truth is that admission rates do drop for legacy when you take that off the table. >> athena, thank you so much. natasha, joe and elle stay with us. >>> stay with us. we'll have more details coming up next about a car in israel. retired right? oe am i? ya! the que

if ketanji brown jackson sat down for a new york times interview with the democrat election lawyer toepublican voter laws, what would conservatives say? >> and let's just add an extra layer to this. david rifkin also wrote a letter on behalf of leonard leo to the senate judiciary committee claiming that the committee doesn't have any authority to investigate alito's relationships and financial support of judges and justices. because of the first amendment claiming that an investigation like that would violate leonard leo's first amendment rights. an interesting assertion to consider given the needs that leonard leo recently had a protester arrested for calling him and effing fastest in public. akok apparently, to literally, out the first amendment allows him to have somebody arrested for saying nasty things about him, but does not allow the congress of the united states to open an investigation into his 1.6 billion dollar dark money machine. >> also pro, tiffany no lawyer, but if somebody calls you a fascist, best not to call for them to be arrested. just a pro tips. mark joseph stern

from ketanji brown jackson to vice president kamala harris, and everyone in between, about how they are, and shouldn't get to where they are based on the fact that he simply assumes they are there because of affirmative action. donald trump is leaning into the anti-dei, the anti-culture wars, the wokeism. because he knows that there is a base for. and sadly, that is the current republican party. >> so, as we're having this conversation, and now we have this collision of ideology and policy experts talking about these extreme amendments that have been added to the nba. in congress, david, talk to me? what is the priority, for republicans? typically, that has been a strong military and, making sure that we have a defense for our country against our adversaries globally. but now, we are actually seeing republican legislatures hold up ndaa appropriations bill, just because of these culture wars. so, where is the importance? here >> yet charles, the national defense authorization act is the department of defense policy bill, that is a behemoth of a policy. bill it has passed congress every y

laughter] >> i liked reading john roberts' opinion and then reading both clarence thomas and ketanji brown jacksonause there you have two african-american people on court, and they have strong disagreements about this. thomas writes racialism simply can't be undone by different or more racialism. we haven't mentioned yet, it was asian-american students who brought this case. >> yeah. >> because they felt they were being discriminated against. they weren't asking for specific numbers to be allowed in, they were asking for fairness. a lot of things -- well, so many things have changed. sandra day o'connor in 2003 when she was a justice, she said in 25 years i imagine this is probably not going to be the necessary anymore. well, where are we now? it's 2023, and in 2005 and i'm the spokesperson for justice roberts in his confirmation hearings, this issue came up. he has been work on this for a long time, and it took this case by these asian-american students to work its way up to a majority conservative court in order to get to this result. i wonder if people who are critical of this decision can thin

there was a very strong dissent from the newest member of the court, justice ketanji brown jackson inny are saying over these last few days it's been a powerful counterpoint for the history books and maybe for a future case where dissent becomes majority, that is it worth reading and hearing. and we can announce here at msnbc, the award-winning actress woodard is reading the entire dissent, every word as an exclusive legal education project here in partnership with msnbc. an easy way to find it is through your beat podcast. go wherever you get your podcast and search for the beat, it's our most recent item or scan to listen on screen right here. this is part of our on going digital initiative. so i hope you'll give it a listen because it's something we wanted to do to mark the coverage last week we definitely talked about the majority opinion. this is a chance to hear from a forthright dissent. "the reid out" with joy reid is up next. ♪♪ >>> tonight on "the reid out" -- >> american people as a whole recognize that we have in the past been wrong of deprooiing certain minor tis of their

justice ketanji brown jackson did not mince words on her dissent, saying quote, deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. and it's a back for lgbtq+ rights, conservative justices also ruled that they allow a colorado website design or to refuse service for a same-sex couple. and a long awaited decision, score struck down president biden's plan to forgive more than 400 billion dollars in student that. in response, biden asked new initiatives to protect student loan borrowers, including a different path for debt relief through the higher education act. the plan allows education secretary miguel cardona to quote, compromise waves or release loans under certain circumstances. nbc news supreme court reporter lawrence hurly joins me now. lawrence, good morning, thank you for starting off the show with us. what did these three major decisions mean for everyday americans? >> i think what is clear is that again, the supreme court with his conservative majority is showing that it's willing to use this power and that it can really influence peoples daily lives, and it did so with

let's start with justice ketanji brown jackson, who writes this dissent on the affirmative action case let them eat cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the rip cord and announces color blindness for all by legal fiat. but given grace irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. help us understand what she means by this color blind argument. >> yes there's a real difference that between the conservative and liberal justices on the court on this issue, that it is perhaps shown best through the two black justices on the court. one of course is justice clarence thomas. he wrote his own separate opinion where he defended this idea of a color blind constitution which is what he strongly believes in. you know, no racial preference is ever okay under the 14th amendment. and of course, justice jackson sees that very differently. she sees the 14th amendment enacted after the civil war to give a quality to black people is something that's not to be used to help raise black people but foster equality and people from her perspective the formative action programs like that once the court

all the justices were watching clarence thomas give this opinion, except for ketanji brown jackson. justice jackson was looking straight ahead, occasionally sipping your coffee. she was not looking at clarence thomas the only other black men brought the court as he was giving this opinion. i found that really interests dane. nelson found the nature of a very fascinating. you won't hear anyone talk about these decisions, because the supreme court did not really set. they only just a few years ago began releasing the argument audio of all this for the supreme court. it's very old fashion. there is an annual clock of the court where it strikes, ten they walk up, and they just start. lindsey. >> thank you for giving us some of that color. hundreds more under arrest in france after the fifth night of unrest there. we're back in 60 seconds on what leaders are doing to calm the situation. the situation. tourists taking photos that are analyzed by ai. so researchers can help life underwater flourish. ♪ at pnc bank, so researchers can help life you can find us in big cities and small towns a

but also the big star was justice ketanji brown jackson, who was inducted as an honorary member of the delta sigma theater sorority incorporated. that was the big news that broke that she is now our sweet so roar, and we're so excited. dave jolly, christina greer, thank you very much deltas, you won the week. that's the week. all in with chris hayes starts now. now. >> good evening from new york. i'm ali velshi in for chris hayes. as voting is underway from to determine the republican nominee for president in 2024, donald trump is going to be on trial. just today we learned the ex president must appear in court on may the 20th, 2024, in fort pierce, florida, for the start of his first federal criminal trial in the classified documents case. donald trump will be tried on 37 counts with charges ranging from conspiracy to obstruct justice to willful retention of government documents and making false statements. that ruling came from the trump appointed judge aileen cannon, the first has she has faced as to whether or not she will be impartial to the ex president. there were valid concerns

sotomayor firing back that ignoring racial inequality will not make it disappear, and justice ketanji brown jackson even more biting, accusing thomas and the majority of let-them-eat-cake obliviousness. >> we need to be prepared for less diverse campuses in the short term. >> reporter: for some asian american students who have felt disadvantaged in the elite college admissions process, it was vindication. at harvard between 2005 and 2013, they had the highest sat scores of any racial group, but the lowest acceptance rate. >> affirmative action is a low-intention idea that is poorly executed in reality. >> reporter: the nation's most selective colleges and universities are not scrambling for a new approach. >> for many, this decision feels deeply personal. it means the real possibility that opportunities will be foreclosed, but at harvard, it has strengthened our resolve to continue opening doors. >> reporter: nine states have banned affirmative action and may offer clues as to what's ahead. at ucla, the student body was 17% black in 1996. a decade after it was outlawed as an admissions factor, it w

all the justices were looking at justice thomas as he was giving that, except for justice ketanji brown jacksont into the courtroom the entire time. almost a pained look on her face throughout the entire time that justice thomas is reading his extensive concurrent opinion. this will be about the time that -- you could understand what that sounded like, but there is no sound to toss to on this because the supreme does not really sound from the opinions. they only do, only recently started doing it, from the arguments themselves. i think that speaks to the old fashioned, old-time nature of the supreme court. when we walk into the courtroom, and the justices walk, in and they come in at the strike of ten on the analog clocks that was about the bench, they walk, and they sat, down there was a -- and they began reading the opinions. that is how it works in the supreme court. there is a dozen reporters, about 100 members of the public. they lined up outside the supreme court to be able to walk in, but it was very clear that everyone that was in the room understood the gravity of the opinions, forget

remedied the discriminatory intent by altering the list of crimes in her dissent, justice ketanji brown jackson wrote that the authors of the mississippi constitution made clear that they intended to exclude black people by removing voting rights for certain felony convictions. one of the next big decisions coming up from the us supreme court will be over restrictions on firearms. the court agreed today to decide whether judges are going too far in striking down restrictions on guns. this case revolves around a biden administration appeal of a lower court's ruling that struck down a federal law that's meant to keep guns away from people who have domestic violence. restraining orders against them. the arguments in the case will start in the fall. tomorrow marks 30 years since the deadliest mass shooting in san francisco history. on july 1st, 1993, a disgruntled law firm client entered the 34th floor, 34th floor of the high rise at 101 california street. the shooting rampage left eight people dead and injured six others. it led to a push for gun safety laws in california and across the country. f

. >> monique, this is also the first term for justice ketanji brown jackson, the nation's first black woman to serve on the supreme court. what will be gained by her presence on the bench do you think? >> i think all you have to do is read her dissent, read the opinion and one of the most devastating decisions that this court has come out with in the midst of many devastating decisions unfortunately. but when they decide that affirmative action based on race, looking at race as a single issue would no longer be the law of the land, or be permitted, her talking about the obliviousness with which they made this decision, talking about the decision that you can try to treat people equally when there is a lack of equality. you can't pretend v to b colour-blind when everything in this country is based on color. i think the fact that she is there, even to be able to write it in the dissent is critically important. >> guy, i want to get your assessment of how you think that we will look back on supreme court term in the years to come. >> look, on some of the most contentious and most importa

in a blistering dissent, justice ketanji brown jackson quoted one of the authors of that 1890 jim crow law, justice jackson writes the president of the 1890 mississippi constitutional convention said it plain, let us tell the truth if it bursts the bottom of the universe. we came here to exclude the knee grow. nothing short of this will answer. just as johnson goes on to say that constitutional wrongs do not write themselves. with its failure to take action, the court has missed yet another opportunity to learn from its mistakes. so on the one hand it might be surprising that the supreme court did not take up this case. but it comes amid a flurry of other controversial rulings by the court in just the past two days. i mean yesterday just yesterday the court ruled back the clock on college admissions by ending affirmative action from college applicants. but apparently that did not go far enough in making it harder for disenfranchised communities to go to college because today, well, the courts conservatives issued another damning decision, and doing student loan forgiveness for tens of

justice ketanji brown jackson wrote in her dissent quote deeming grace irrelevant in law does not makeso and life earth justice clarence thomas firing back, just as jackson's race in butte falls flat at each step. the ideological divide was also clear friday court ruled a colorado graphic designer's refusal to create certain lgbtq related expressive content was protected by the first amendment. the dissenting opinion called it a setback for gay rights. the vita reelection campaign the help is he can turn the legal losses to voter motivation. >> a present expressed this week is also looking to turn around the turn 'bidenomics' it was used negatively by opponents into a positive to sell his administration and their economic policy, shannon. shannon: will talk about that were coming up more. alexander half at the white house during a cell presidential candidate former u.s. ambassador and former governor nikki haley. government will back the "fox news sunday". but thank you for having me, shannon. shannon: i want to start france these images disturbing and warm and gentle word on attack on

you supreme court justice ketanji brown jackson has added a new accolade to her resumÉ. she was inducted an an honorary member during the na convention in indianapolis and in an exclu statement to cnn justice jackson said because delta cigna theta extends honorary memberships to women who made significant couldn' contributions to society it is an honor to be recognized. i am humbled to be among this year's extraordinary group of inductees. it may be unusual to see a sitting justice inducted into a sorority, but this is one of a group of nine historically black sororities and fraternities with long histories as centers of activism, scholarship and service in the african american community. on thursday also vice president kamala harris, she spoke at the convention yesterday, although she is actually a member of a different divine nine sorority, alpha kappa alpha. i am also a delta. so she is now technically my sorority sister. >> at least she has got, you know, famous and important friends to hang out with. that's cool. really cool. i am not. >> that's okay. >> i didn't ru

to note and we have not mentioned this yet is the presence of the newest justice, justice ketanji brown jacksonhe wrote a separate opinion. someone like justice thomas, people watching may not be aware of this he calls himself an originalist. he is someone who believes the constitution should be interpreted along the lines of what he'll call the original cpublic meeting. what did people at the time think the constitution meant? justice jackson has been pushing and she was doing it oral argument in the alabama case what historians have said is that at the time the 14th amendment, the 15th amount of the reconstruction after theaf civil war at the time they passed congress did not view the law is colorblind they use it as a race conscious. they did not think they were the ones to pass these amendments and they are the ones who then pass laws implementing those amendments that gave preferences to newly freed slaves and shoot other african-americans throughout the unitedd states. and so if you are an originalist intake the history of the 14th amendment seriously justice jackson said you have to acce

he warned universities don't applican the advice of sotomayorsoto and ketanji brown, jackson and the dissenmat this case. he warned them not to useja applications as a backdoorckson to once again consider race. and i think it's interesting co you have laid out their admission about how much they were using racession ab byg our numbers will plummet. i'm also taken aback, jonathan , by how many people have said in a condescending fashion, as george w bush once said, the low standard, the racism of low expectations, how there is this sense that in a meritocratic system, that minority outside of asians will not be able to keep up with our admissions standarde s i think that that's partth of the whole purpose of this. this direction of convconversation is to avoid what we really need to be talking about, which is the completehat collapse of the public education system, particularly in urban centers. you know, you have billions and billions of dollars given for public education, which i am a fervent believer in. i sent all o whif my kids to puc schools because i believe in public schools a