Read Justice Sotomayor and Jackson's dissents in the affirmative action case: 'The devastating impact of this decision cannot be overstated,' Sotomayor wrote.
, overturning about 45 years of precedent.
, the court’s newest and first Black female justice, recused herself from the Harvard case because she has served on the university’s Board of Overseers, but issued a separate scathing dissenting opinion in the North Carolina case.Below are several highlights from Sotomayor and Jackson’s dissenting opinions. You can read the full text of the opinions“Today, this Court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress.
“Today, this Court overrules decades of precedent and imposes a superficial rule of race blindness on the Nation.”
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