SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas Takes Justice Ketanji Jackson to Woodshed in Affirmative Action Opinion

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas put freshman Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson through the wringer in his opinion explaining why her arguments in favor of race-based college admissions were unconstitutional. The high court released its opinions Thursday after a 6-3 vote deciding the race-based admission policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard College violated the Constitution. In his opinion concurring with Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion, Thomas took offense to Jackson’s claims that slavery has kept black Americans in a state of perpetual poverty and inferiority. Justice Thomas,...