Anybody who ever wondered whether affirmative action hurts institutions need only revisit the Supreme Court’s oral arguments for Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard, held on Halloween.
Sonia Sotomayor is the Court’s premier affirmative action justice — yes, even more than Ketanji Brown Jackson. KBJ, at least, doesn’t have a letter from Lawrence Tribe warning the president who picked her about how stupid she is, while Sotomayor actually does! And all of Sotomayor’s dubious intellect was on display that Halloween. In a display more horrifying than any holiday slasher flick, Soto mangled the distinction between “de jure” and “de facto,” a distinction known by every law student, not to mention many precocious middle schoolers. Transcript from Reason:-- More...