Always great to see what you both have to say. But as far as I can tell from the Roberts opinion, today’s decision does not prevent colleges from considering how a student might have overcome racial barriers in order to succeed academically. So all is not lost. Especially if new admissions policies look for economically disadvantaged applicants in future, as opposed to merely Black ones.

That’s not to say I agree with the court’s conservative majority. I’m with Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson on this one. Perhaps the conservatives haven’t read the 14th amendment recently. Ot maybe they don’t realize amendments are part of the Constitution too.