In Affirmative Action Ruling, Black Justices Take Aim at Each Other

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : In an extraordinary exchange that played out among the pages of a landmark decision by the Supreme Court declaring race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities across the nation unlawful, two Black justices battled over the merits of affirmative action.
58% : But their interpretation of the law and their understanding of affirmative action and its role in American life could not be farther apart.
49% : Justice Thomas castigated Justice Jackson's backing of affirmative action, describing it as a panacea where society would "unquestioningly accede to the view of elite experts and reallocate society's riches by racial means as necessary to 'level the playing field.'"Although he acknowledged that "our society is not, and has never been, colorblind," he deemed wealth gaps between Black and white Americans "constitutionally irrelevant."
37% : In his concurring opinion, Justice Thomas called out Justice Jackson directly in a lengthy critique, singling out her views on race and leveling broader criticisms of liberal support for affirmative action.

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