Another of the liberal justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson, wrote in her dissent that “it would be deeply unfortunate if the Equal Protection Clause actually demanded this perverse, ahistorical, and counterproductive outcome.”
The Supreme Court’s decision to restrict racial considerations in affirmative action for university admissions could set the United States on a different path from some other countries that practice their own versions of affirmative action.
Now that the Supreme Court has struck down the use of race-conscious admissions at universities, conservative groups and legal experts say that the private sector should brace for challenges to their DEI initiatives.