Gorsuch makes it clear that nixing affirmative action was stopping race discrimination

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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch responded to criticisms and concerns about recent rulings to reverse prior rulings on abortion and affirmative action on "CBS Mornings" Monday.

Gorsuch responded to criticism that his rulings are based in ideology rather than constitutional interpretation. He explained that he agrees with his more liberal colleagues 45% of the time, and he has no idea what "an ideologically divided case is."

In June 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively ending recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and giving individual states the power to allow, limit, or ban the practice altogether. A year later, SCOTUS rejected the use of race as a factor in college admissions as a violation of the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, effectively ending affirmative action.

CBS News' correspondent Major Garrett asked Gorsuch about the rulings to overturn such cases when the public thought were "settled."

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"I'd say those are deeply complex legal questions on which reasonable minds can, of course, and do disagree. And then when it comes to Roe versus Wade, for example, what do the court decide decided that 'We the People' should answer that question, not nine people sitting in Washington, D.C.," Gorsuch said.

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