The ruling is seismic, now come the aftershocks.

John Berman here in Ferranderson.

Tonight, what happens now that the Supreme Court has gutted affirmative action in a decision

that could profoundly change college admissions and more broadly reshape life for millions

in this country.

Also, what we are learning about the arrest in the Washington neighborhood where the Obama's

live of a heavily armed man with materials to make a Molotov cocktail who is also wanted

in connection with January 6th, plus what we are learning about a new cooperating witness

in the January 6th probe of the former president and why he could be in a position to now say

a lot.

First, the Supreme Court's history-making decision today dismantling a pillar of affirmative

action, specifically college admissions.

In it, the court ruled by a 6-to-3 margin that race-conscious policies at Harvard and

the University of North Carolina violate the 14th Amendment.

In his majority opinion, the chief justice rights at the program's quote, unavoidably

employ race in a negative manner involve racial stereotyping and lack meaningful endpoints.

Those admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the equal protection

clause.

Justice Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Thomas wrote separate concurrences.

Justice Sotomayor wrote a blistering dissent and Justice Kataji Brown Jackson who recused

herself from the Harvard case because of ties to the school wrote this in dissent on North

Carolina.

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