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- Ripple effects. The Supreme Court yesterday, as expected, gutted affirmative action in higher education. No longer can colleges and universities consider race as a factor in deciding college admissions.
In the 6-3 decision over college admissions at the University of North Carolina, the court's liberal female justices banded together to dissent. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored a dissent in which she argues that the majority fails to see the reality of the world we live in. “With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life,” Jackson wrote.
