Washington CNN —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.
Justice Clarence Thomas and the court’s other four conservatives joined Roberts’ opinion.
Thomas has previously acknowledged that he made it to Yale Law School because of affirmative action, but he has long criticized such policies.
(While Jackson recused herself from the Harvard case, she did hear the UNC case, and her dissent was focused on the latter.)
In his memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son,” Thomas says he felt “tricked” by paternalistic Whites at Yale who recruited Black students.
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