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loif. again. the justices say affirmative action is wrong. the conservative majority's ruling will change how college admissions decisions are made everywhere. plus personal and pointed. the two black justices on the bench use their opinions to litigate a fight over the role of race in american society. and the ruling is making waves already on the 2024 campaign trail. president trump calls it a great day for america. president biden set to speak in minutes from the white house. i'm dana bash. let's go behind the headlines and "inside politics." the supreme court undoes decades...

the last scheduled decision day of the term, we could finally get some answers on some massive undecided cases. rulings on affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, and lgbtq+ rights among others. decisions that could impact all of us, and they could come down at any minute, and we have a full lineup of guests and experts on this. i want to begin with nbc news correspondent julia ainsley who's standing by at the supreme court for us. julia, set the scene there, how might this go down? >> reporter: well, you're right, this is the last scheduled day, ana, but we're expecting anothe...

the year was 1990, republican incumbent of north carolina senator jesse helms was polling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election, so home called in the political consultants who, in turn, helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back, and this is what they came up with, this ad. >> you needed that job, -- but they had to give it to a minority because of the racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt says it is. he supports the racial quota law, making the color of your skin more important in your qu...

at harvard a black plicatae cream of the crop had a 56% chance while whites and asians with the same qualifications had a 15%. a black applicant had a higher chance to get in than a top asian or white student t supreme court ruled 6-3 that's unconstitutional racial discrimination probed by the equal protection clause t14th amendment. chief justice john roberts who authored the majority says this, quote. eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it. the guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied t...

standardized tests and their grades and then they argued with harvard and north carolina that they were starting to only allow a certain percentage of them to come to the school at some of the most prestigious colleges in the country. this is a big deal. chief justice roberts writing in his decision "many universities have for too long done just the opposite. in doing so, they have concluded wrongly that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built or lessons learned but the color of their skin." our constitutional history does not tolerate that c...