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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...

The Supreme Court majority sided with a Colorado wedding website designer who wants to deny services to same-sex couples. Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the U.S. Supreme Court of granting businesses the right "to refuse to serve members of a protected class" for the first time in its history. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday in favor of a evangelical Christian website designer who argued that a Colorado anti- discrimination law violated her First Amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings. Sotomayor noted a nationwide rise in anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and called it "heartbreaking." "Sadly, it is also familiar," she wrote in her dissent. "When the civil rights and women's rights movements sought equality in public life, some public establishments refused. Some even claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on this Court decisively rejected th...