Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson criticize each other in unusually sharp language in affirmative action case
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling Thursday on affirmative action pitted its two Black justices against each other, with the ideologically opposed jurists employing unusually sharp language attacking each other by name.
” A footnote near the end of Jackson’s dissent went after the concurrence by Thomas, with the liberal justice accusing her colleague of demonstrating “an obsession with race consciousness that far outstrips my or UNC’s holistic understanding that race can be a factor that affects applicants’ unique life experiences.” “Justice Thomas ignites too many more straw men to list, or fully extinguish, here,” Jackson wrote.
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