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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, pulled no punches when criticizing her conservative counterparts Thursday for ruling to ban affirmative action in American universities, saying they acted with “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness.”
Jackson did not hide her rage that the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, believed the University of North Carolina’s affirmative action admission policies were unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
“Our country has never been so colorblind,” Jackson wrote. “Given the lengthy history of state-sponsored, race-based preferences in America, to say that anyone is now victimized if a college considers whether that legacy of discrimination has unequally advantaged its applicants fails to acknowledge the well-documented ‘intergenerational transmission of inequality’ that still plagues our citizenry.”