US High Court’s rejection of race-based admissions setting stage for ‘many many years of litigation’

Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the Supreme Courtroom ruling placing down race-based admissions in greater schooling, but it surely was the three justices who make the courtroom probably the most various in its 233-year historical past who marked the stark, embittered battle traces over affirmative motion. It was a second heavy with historical past and emotion. Clarence Thomas, the longest serving justice and the courtroom’s second Black justice, learn a concurring opinion from the bench, pointedly rejecting the validity of utilizing race as the premise for preferential consideration. He was adopted by Sonia Sotomayor, its first Latina, whose dissenting opinion took purpose at Thomas. Then got here Ketanji Brown Jackson, the courtroom’s first Black lady, whose written dissent was its personal biting, metaphor-laden rebuke. The temper within the courtroom Thursday was somber, with many of the justices sitting expressionless, taking occasional sips of water. Each Jackson and Sotomayor seemed straight forward as Roberts learn the bulk opinion and Thomas his concurrence. Thomas, who has opposed race-based measures which have come to the courtroom since his affirmation in 1991, centered on how the apply had negatively impacted Asian People to the benefit of Black college students. For a deeper perspective on the Excessive Courtroom’s embittered battle traces over affirmative motion, FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen is joined by veteran lawyer Stephen Dreyfuss, Associate at Hellring Lindeman Goldstein & Siegal LLP and Former President of the ‘Union Internationale des Avocats.’