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The u.s. supreme court wraps up its term with two controversial rulings. i guess we have that every season. one seen as a significant setback to gay rights and protections. the court sided with a web designer who doesnt want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples. the ruling, though, is rooted in freedom of speech. heres what the web designer said earlier today. >> the state of colorado has been silencing and coercing my speech and forcing me to create a message i dont wish to create. n...

And ramblings and rantings and mumbling and bumbling. and stumbling. >> you decide. take a look. todatake ay the court once again prlked away from decades of maecedent and. may, as the dissent hades madehf clear, the court has effectively endefed affirmative action in college admissions. >> and i strongl y, strongly disagree with the courts decision. the truth is, we all kno courw it. >> discrimination still exists in america. discrimination still exists in america. discriminationmination still ...

His struggles and ramblings and ran things and mumbling and bumbling and stumbling. you decide. take a look. >> today the court once away walked away from decades of precedent and as a dissent was made clear. the court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions. i strongly disagree with the courts decision. the truth is we all know it. discrimination still exists in america. discrimination still exists in america. discrimination still exists in america. todays decision does n...

Basis of our merits. we should be treated on the basis of how hard we work, our studies, s.a.t. scores, our grades. a name blind, race blind process. >> reporter: critics say the ruling is a setback for racial and ethnic equality in education. >> im really most worried about the youth and the students younger than us in high school and middle school and elementary school who may not get the same opportunity that i did. >> reporter: the divide reflected in sharply worded opinions from the courts ...

They say theyre going to put more control with parents, but they want national control. they dont want local control. what is going to happen in their school, they dont want the parents of the school to decide. so a lot of this is being fought out legislatively now. and i think its point to go this sort of basic hypocrisy in the republican party that they say that theyre against big government but very much for big government when it supports the issues and the ideology that they support. >> ste...

I believe the courts decision to strike down my student belief programme was a mistake, it was wrong. i am not going to stop fighting to give them what they need especially those of they need especially those of the bottom of the economic scale. we need to find a new way and we are moving as fast as we can and i am announcing today a new path consistent with todays willing to provide student debt relief to his many borrowers as possible as quickly as possible. earlier, i spoke with bob costa, ch...

Antidiscrimination laws, and on the repayment of student loans, and in that case, the high court dealt the biden white house a significant setback. writing for the majority, chief justice john roberts said the biden administration overstepped its legal authority to justify its sweeping student loan cancellation plan. a 2003 law allows the administration to "waive or modify statutes pertaining to student loans during national emergencies." roberts wrote, "it does not permit basic and fundamental ...

Today, the six conservative justices ruled in favor of an evangelical christian web designer who refused to make websites for same-sex weddings. a major setback to lgbtq rights and protections. they also struck down president bidens plan to forgive $10 to $20,000 in student loan debt for more than 40 million americans. now, not only do these decisions along with yesterdays decision ending affirmative action insure direct harm to the most vulnerable communities in our country, it also further pro...

The governments plan to deport asylum seekers to rwanda has been ruled unlawful by the court of appeal in london. three seniorjudges ruled, by a majority, that rwanda could not be treated as a safe third country. thejudgment is being seen as a major setback to prime minister rishi sunak. 0ur correspondent is outside court. basically what they were ruling today here at the court of appeal was whether the lander was a safe third country for people to be sent from, people are applying for asylum in...

The shareholders going to stump up? they want to know what sort of rate of return they are going to debt. the government is on standby to help. the key thing is, the taps are not going to be turned off, the its too big a company to fail, the only risk is of course those bills for customers going up. our top story this evening. the government has suffered another setback to its plan to deport asylum seekers to rwanda as its ruled unlawful. coming up. how this mine in cornwall could help our elect...