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indictments hes facing. plus, actor marcus scribner is in our simone spotlight. once a star of the tv company black-ish, now in the final season of grown-ish. whats next in his career and role and climate change activism? im simone sanders-townsend, and i have something to. so >> its been just over a week since the six conservative justices on the united states supreme court upended decades of precedent, banning the consideration of race in the polyp -- college admissions process. now ...

designed to create diverse student bodies at our countries colleges and universities. were going to talk about why that ruling is so much better than just a college admission process. plus, the conservative-leaning court also presided president bidens debt forgiveness plan was unlawful, which means payments will default again soon. we are talking to bidens domestic policy chief about what the president can do to still give americans some form of relief for their student loan debt and m...

Complete against harvard university. one of the respondents on the supreme courts admissions case is on behalf of three civil rights organizations based in boston. theyre asking the federal government to intervene and abolish a system called legacy preference. legacy preferences were children of alumni or major donors at institutions like harvard or getting special considerations and imitations process. the complaint says each year, haulage carver grads special preference in its admissions proce...

And now, its happening in the lgbtq community. the difference now, justice sotomayor says, is that at one time, we had a brave supreme court justices who were willing to follow the constitution. but now, we have justices like alito, thomas, and neil gorsuch who want to return us to the bad old days when straight white men ran the country. >> lets talk specifically about some of these cases. in the admissions case, elie, chief justice roberts assured in the majority opinion that students could st...

Hated these hated these rankings . theyre completely antiquated out of date, and theyre just like a mean girls. its like regina george of the you know of the lists. i hated it. i hope they all go away. i feel like were in an upheaval in higher education. right now. you get this rankings thing. youve got the admissions case. youve had the admission scandal. you know that. send people to jail. you got people all over the country, the student loan question thats laying out there and people question...

Lawyers cite wider value of campus diversity on culture, economy of nation, push back against claims of bias against Asian Americans.