watch nowThe Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the affirmative action admission policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional. Justice Clarence Thomas, a Black conservative who wrote a concurring opinion, said that the schools' affirmative action admissions policies "fly In the face of our colorblind constitution. In her dissent to the majority, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is Black, called the ruling "truly a tragedy for us all." In doing so, she argued the Supreme Court "cements a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society where race has always mattered and continues to matter." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Getty Images

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Persons: John Roberts, Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Thomas, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Chip Somodevilla, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Getty Organizations: Harvard, University of North, U.S, Supreme, of Harvard College Locations: University of North Carolina, Washington ,