Attorney Ted Frank wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday criticizing Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissenting opinion on affirmative action.
Frank wrote that Jackson's claim came from a 2020 study, according to a footnote in the dissent, but added that the study didn't match Jackson's claim.
"The study makes no such claims. It examines mortality rates in Florida newborns between 1992 and 2015 and shows a 0.13% to 0.2% improvement in survival rates for black newborns with black pediatricians ," he said. The Supreme Court rejected the use of race as a factor in college admissions at the end of June, citing a violation of the 14th amendment.
In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that,"A benefit to a student who overcame racial discrimination, for example, must be tied toPresident Biden nominated Jackson to the high court in 2022 and the first Black female Supreme Court Justice began her first term last October."So we have a Supreme Court justice parroting a mathematically absurd claim coming from an interested party’s mischaracterization of a flawed study.
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