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.
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Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the opinion, said the schools' programs had employed race "in a negative manner" and lacked meaningful end points. Instead, the court said institutions of higher education can only consider how race has impacted an individual applicant through their personal experiences or narrative.
"And having so detached itself from this country's actual past and present experiences, the court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America's real-world problems," she continued. Justice Thomas, the court's only Black man, has a sharply different view on affirmative action's role in his life. He's called the programs paternalistic and that he felt stigmatized after attending Yale Law School at a time when his race was taken into consideration.
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