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and i think that across the board, the vast majority of the american people don't agree with a lot of the decisions the courts are making. >> president biden in an exclusive interview with my colleague, nicolle wallace, responding to today's very predictable supreme court decision on affirmative action. and that is where we begin tonight, with the united states supreme court once again turning the arc of justice away from equality and back to the early 20th century. striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. the roberts court, which wouldn't even look like t...

overall, it is hoped this census will provide a clearer view. so, for the first time, sexuality and gender identity will be a matter of national record. what difference will that make? well, some organisations say the data could be very useful. both in terms of funding and, for this youth homelessness charity, how best to focus support. as we expand our services, we would like to know where young people are that identify as lgbtq plus, so that we can target those areas and make our services go further. landmark buildings lit up in census purple ahead of this sunday, the day to base y...

Identity. all the stories i have told harvard, which is the reason i got in, were directly correlated with my race because i live as a black woman every single day. and a lot of my peers and counterparts that are also black, like i get to hear their amazing stories and what they get to do every day that you just need in a school like harvard. so yeah. >> andrew, you testified i think in one of the lower court cases. i would love to know what you make of the decision and how you think it will change the university from which you graduated if people cannot freely, the university cannot freely ch...

This kind of malfeasance by these supreme court justices is utterly ridiculous. white folk get the hook up, black folk get the hook. we have to understand we have to continue to strategize like we did before there was affirmative action so we can have a long plan. schools can still consider race among many other factors. you can't stop a school from saying diversity is incredibly important and name that diversity in ways that obscure the race for strategic purposes. >> let me ask you what you make of clarence thomas' concurrence. >> that is a shameful manifestation of a lethal and malignant bl...

They left in place the other ways in which elite schools like harvard and the ivies and all of the other schools decide who can get in. they said you can still let legacies in. they didn't touch that kind of affirmative action which is for the wealthy scions of mainly white families. they left in place if you're an athlete, that's fine, and they left in the place people who are related to somebody who works at the school. what they're saying is the only thing a school can't consider is if you're not white. >> the argument that the court accepts today is that there's an equal protection violati...