The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education on Thursday. In her 68-page dissent, she argued that the court is "entrenching racial inequality in education." In striking down affirmative action, Sotomayor argued, the court is cementing "a superficial rule of colorblindness" in an "endemically segregated society." She goes on to argue that the court's decision is "grounded in the illusion that racial inequality was a problem of a different generation." "Entrenched racial inequality remains a reality today," wrote Sotomayor.

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Persons: Sonia Sotomayor, —, Sonia Sotomayor —, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson —, Sotomayor, Robert Blum, Donald Trump Organizations: Service, United States Supreme, of Education, Fair, Harvard University, University of North Locations: America, Brown, University of North Carolina