reporter: there s certainly more people out here today than we ve seen in days past, especially because today we know exactly what we will get decisions on because it s the last day. you mentioned those two big cases, of course at the end of pride month. that case that has to do with whether or not a web designer can refuse to design a wedding website for a gay couple. we could see some reaction to that. the biggest one we re watching for is on student loans, whether or not biden s student loan forgiveness program will stand. the biden administration was using a congressional act started after 9/11 in 2003. it was continued through the pandemic, even invoke bid betsy devoss under the trump administration. can student loans be forgiven in their entirety forever? this would affect about 43,000 people, sorry, we re starting to get some decisions just in now. so i m going to go listen for what those are, and i said 43,000, that s 43 million people, and i ll be back to you when
sexual orientation versus race? that s one of the things we re now going to be looking for. the major headline here is that the high court has ruled in her favor, and now we ll see what happens next. savannah. okay. our thanks to laura jarrett. we were simulcasting with our network nbc, hence the delay on the front end. we really wanted to hear from laura because she s been studying so much on this. she s a lawyer herself. she gave us what she knows about the decision. some of my guests have had a chance to look through at least a few pages. i do want to bring in and add to our conversation the president and ceo of glad, sarah kay ellis. thank you so much for coming in here. give us your reaction to this ruling. i think this is license to discriminate at the highest court. i think this is a pattern we ve been seeing with the supreme court where they re taking away rights instead of broadening rights for marginalized communities. we saw it yesterday, we saw it last year with roe v.
deep into forcing integration in schools as to be able to bus students from one district to another. and that was a debate that went on for years and years. that s not just like one vote. that is the 70s and even into the early 80s. this is something joe biden is probably going to have to talk more about. if you look at the totality of his career, he s also extremely strong on the voting rights extensions. voting rights acts extensions as chairman of the judiciary committee and ranking member. civil rights extensions. broadening rights to other communities. this is a complicated issue than most people are giving credit to right now. what s your sense of all the democratic candidates. particularly the ones on stage with biden next week. whether it s this issue or any other. the appetite the other candidates have, his opponents have to directly take him on on that stage next week?
chairman of the judiciary committee and ranking member. broadening rights to other communities. this is a complicated issue than most people are giving credit to right now. what s your sense of all the democratic candidates. particularly the ones on stage with biden next week. whether it s this issue or any other. the appetite the other candidates have, his opponents have to directly take him on on that stage next week? yeah. i was talking to one of the campaigns today about this very issue. and you know, i think one of the things you re seeing with some of these civil rights leaders coming to biden s defense, there is not much of an appetite among democrats to really go after each other. we had a nasty primary in the 2016 cycle, and they don t want to have sort of that knockdown dragout fight again. many of them are genuine friends. at the same time, we ve already