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good afternoon, im lindsey reiser in for chris jansing at msnbc headquarters in new york city. breaking news, affirmative action struck down. president biden as you just heard that finished speaking on the landmark supreme court decision and the potential long lasting consequences at colleges, universities, and students across this country. the court ruling on a pair of challenges to policies at harvard and unc, that the schools can no longer look at race during the admissions process....

>> thanks, rachel. >> all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. >> good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldnt believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinio...

and i think thats, i think, part of the reason that youve had so much discussion today about whats next, because if theyre willing to do this on this, which they knew would be the most divisive possible thing in the country, obviously, they would do it on things for what they think they had even more leeway to operate. that, we dont care element to this is, i think, gonna be a profoundly important part of the way this changes the country. >> and when you think of the presidents who mad...

out new york states restrictive regulations on concealed carry pistol permits. thomas wrote the majority opinion. shannon bream, chief legal correspondent is in "focus" now. shannon, first of all the reverberation that can happen throughout the state of new york. is it immediate? >> pretty much. it will be hard for them to enforce this specific law anymore. what this doesnt mean so people know is you can simply go out in new york and buy a gun and start carrying it everywhere you want ...

Number of black s.t.e.m. graduates and engineers and doctors and things because bringing people into colleges that theyre not prepared for seems to be the main result of some of these racial preferences programs, as justice thomass dissent points out. at the end of the day, it doesnt result in more minority applicants, not generally minorities, we know that asian americans are minority that in this case is being discriminated against in these policies, but black and hispanic applicants overall t...

Applies to poor women, women with less financial resources, women who cannot afford to travel to another state, to obtain abortions. services, and perhaps in the future, as the dissent points out, possibly have to travel to toronto, because the republicans are hoping for a nationwide ban on abortion. that is something that mike pence came out in support of today. >> listen, when republicans tell you what theyre going to do, listen. they told us they were going to overturn the affordable care act...

Relies on men who believed in which his, and believed they should be executed. and it does so without embarrassment. they dissent from the majorities belief that the 14th amendments, guaranteed constitutional right to liberty, applies only to the legally recognized liberties that existed in 1868, when the 14th amendment was written. glenns thomas embraces that view without embarrassment, even though in 1868, he would not have had the liberty of interracial marriage that he now enjoys. the dissen...

Kennedy. justice kennedy goes with the conservatives. the chief justice votes with the more liberal oriented justices and rules on a statute that wasnt written. >> the amazing thing is money expected them to come down this way on the tax provision to justify this as a tax and as the dissent points out in this case, a previous version of obama care of the law was rejected by the democrats when it was creating a tax. we dont want to create a tax. it will never pass if we have a tax. so they create...

Kennedy. justice kennedy goes with the conservatives. the chief justice votes with the more liberal oriented justices and rules on a statute that wasnt written. >> the amazing thing is money expected them to come down this way on the tax provision to justify this as a tax and as the dissent points out in this case, a previous version of obama care of the law was rejected by the democrats when it was creating a tax. we dont want to create a tax. it will never pass if we have a tax. so they create...

Kennedy. justice kennedy goes with the conservatives. the chief justice votes with the more liberal oriented justices and rules on a statute that wasnt written. >> the amazing thing is money expected them to come down this way on the tax provision to justify this as a tax and as the dissent points out in this case, a previous version of obama care of the law was rejected by the democrats when it was creating a tax. we dont want to create a tax. it will never pass if we have a tax. so they create...