The Supreme Court’s second Black and first Latina justices delivered rare public statements in the courtroom, offering starkly different views on affirmative action.
the court’s first Latina justice and second African American justice — behind the raised mahogany bench on Thursday, offering passionately conflicting views onBoth Thomas and Sotomayor benefited from affirmative action, winning coveted spots in the same elite law school.“Treating anyone differently based on skin color is oppression,” Thomas, 75, said from the bench after Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. finished reading a summary of the landmark opinion.
Their polite yet pointed exchange on Thursday stretched for more than 30 minutes, touching on the Constitution and historical and present-day racism. Perhaps because it is not publicly known in advance which decisions will be announced when, the courtroom was not entirely filled to hear the extraordinary back-and-forth. But the seven other justices listened intently.
Thomas recounted the nation’s history of discrimination against Asian Americans, including the U.S. internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and compared it to discrimination against African Americans in the South.
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