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Of the court. >> the u.s. supreme court today ended its 2007 term with a history making ruling. the court made it much tougher for school districts to control the mix of children in american classrooms based on race. the court said deciding on a student body in that way is not allowed under the constitution. >> so they try to 2007 and they tried again in 2013 and then again in 2014. but today they succeeded. roberts and thomas, joined by the courts for other conservative justices voted to strike down race conscious admissions. in a 6:33 ruling they found race conscious admissions programs at h...

Admissions programs to work in that way. and we will not do so today. in a fiery dissent, the core courts new justice ketanji brown jackson called the ruling a tragedy for us all. we will let them eat cake obliviousness the majority pulls the record and announces color blindness for all by legal fiat. but deeming race irrelevant to law does not make it so in life. and the colleges of this country are required to ignore a thing that matters, it will not just go away. it will take longer for racism to leave us. and ultimately, ignoring race just makes it matter more. joining us now to discuss ou...

The court said deciding on a student body in that way is not allowed under the constitution. >> so they try to 2007 and they tried again in 2013 and then again in 2014. but today they succeeded. roberts and thomas, joined by the courts for other conservative justices voted to strike down race conscious admissions. in a 6:33 ruling they found race conscious admissions programs at harvard irony university of north carolina they found them unconstitutional. in violation of the >> delivering the majority opinion, chief justice roberts reported, the ambitious programs can be wrecked reconciled with...

Content of their character and on their own achievement and leave race out of the consideration of admissions to hirer education. >> we'll have it all covered over the next two hours of "chris jansing reports." so let's go ahead and dig in to this landmark decision. chief justice john roberts writing the majority opinion here today saying the admissions programs lack sufficiently focussed and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, and that whoever well intentioned and implemented in good faith, the admissions programs fail each of the criteria university programs must comply with. o...

America, to say that anyone is now victimized if a college considers whether that legacy of discrimination has unequally advantaged its applicant fails to acknowledges the inequality that still plagues our citizenry. it is that inequality that admissions programs help to address to the benefit of all of us. the majority's judgment stunts that progress without any basis in law, history, logic, or justice. i dissent. that was justice jackson, again, dissenting specifically in the unc case. she abstained from participating in the harvard case because of her direct connections to that school. ever...