Justice Jackson shreds SCOTUS for 'let-them-eat-cake obliviousness' in latest ruling

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson penned a blistering dissent taking her fellow SCOTUS justices to task for ruling the race-based affirmative action policies used by Harvard and other colleges as unconstitutional.

In her dissent, Justice Jackson accused the court of treating racism as an ancient relic rather than something that still harms people of color to this day.

While she acknowledged the conservatives' sincere desire for a colorblind society, she argued that such a society is not the one we currently have.

"With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces 'colorblindess for all' by legal fiat," she wrote. "But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. And having so detached itself from this country's actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work... institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America's real-world problems."

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Justice Jackson then predicted that barring colleges from considering race in admissions was unlikely to ameliorate problems of racism in the United States.

"The best that can be said of the majority's perspective is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism," she said. "But if that is its motivation, the majority proceeds in vain. If the colleges of this country are required to ignore a thing that matters, it will not just go away."

Read the full dissent at this link (PDF).