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The Supreme Court eradicated race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions Thursday when it ruled 6-3 that programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson slammed the Court’s decision as being “without any basis in law, history, logic, or justice,” and grounded instead in “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness.”
Likewise, Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the decision “not grounded in law or fact” and in conflict with “the vision of equality embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment.” She reduced the majority’s decision to an unwise move undertaken by unelected judges acting with willful blindness: