Politics

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of a “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness” on the issue of race in its landmark ruling on affirmative action. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the way Harvard University and the University of North Carolina use race-conscious admissions policies, […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Students debated the fairness of a landmark Supreme Court decision on Thursday that sets new limits on race as a factor in admissions to public and private colleges and universities. The court held that the current race-conscious admissions policies in place at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University violate […]

Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival (DOVER, Del.) — Sarah McBride is used to being first. She was the first openly transgender person to work in the White House, the first to speak at the Democratic National Convention and the first to become a state senator, in Delaware. If the campaign she announced on Monday […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted the Supreme Court ruling setting new limits on affirmative action as a “severe disappointment,” saying, “we cannot let this decision be the last word.” “The court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions and I strongly, strongly disagree with the court’s decision,” Biden said, […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Marianne Williamson, the Democratic presidential candidate, popular speaker and bestselling author of self-help books who is mounting a dark horse primary challenge to President Joe Biden, is returning to her campaign in earnest after a monthlong stay in England for the birth of her first grandchild. “Now that I’m back, I’m going […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Thursday’s decision by the Supreme Court ends affirmative action in higher education as we know it, even as it allows schools to continue some limited consideration of an applicant’s race. The 6-3 ruling by the court’s conservative justices will change the admissions process for public and private institutions and force the […]

Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday set new limits on affirmative action programs in cases involving whether public and private colleges and universities can continue to use race as one factor among many in student admissions. The court held, in a 6-3 opinion for the conservative majority written by Chief Justice […]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — One of the top advisers on Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is among the individuals identified but not named by special counsel Jack Smith in his indictment against the former president for allegedly mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them, sources familiar […]

Guy Davies/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — In a dramatic move to differentiate himself on a key foreign policy issue, former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday made a surprise trip to Ukraine, projecting solidarity against Russia in a way, so far, unmatched by his Republican competitors. His message in Ukraine was clear: “We are with you.” […]

Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday set new limits on affirmative action programs in cases involving whether public and private colleges and universities can continue to use race as one factor among many in student admissions. The court held, in a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, that Harvard […]