supreme court affirmative action

The Fight Against Our Changing Social Values

“Let-them-eat-cake obliviousness” is how Justice Katanji Brown Jackson described her U.S. Supreme Court colleagues as the Court struck down affirmative action in University admissions – blocking decades of effort to increase opportunities, representation, and upward mobility for historically underrepresented students. Similar to her patience and poise during her confirmation hearings, Justice Jackson was being polite. Her colleagues…