*This report is a good summary of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s 58 page dissent against the Court’s upholding of a Michigan law that bans Affirmative Action in college admissions. VL
By Joan Biskupic, Reuters/Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first Hispanic Supreme Court justice has been on the bench for nearly five years but had never written an opinion addressing race in America until today.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a sharply worded 58-page dissent on Tuesday to the court’s 18-page decision upholding a Michigan state ban on race-based affirmative action in education.
In strong terms that referred to the slights minorities face because of skin color, Sotomayor declared the court’s majority was ignoring a U.S. history of discrimination and the needs of those on the margins of society.
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