Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasts 'let-them-eat-cake obliviousness' in Supreme Court affirmative action dissent
The first Black female justice accused the Supreme Court's conservative majority of a "let-them-eat-cake obliviousness" on the issue of race. 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 . The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the way Harvard University and the University of North Carolina use race-conscious admissions policies, stating they violated the equal protections clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. 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. "In other words, the student must be treated based on his or her e...