Conservatives are not pleased with Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent in yesterday’s affirmative action case, even if they reaffirmed the right to ban it. Instead, Sahil Kapur reports they’re complaining that she’s “legally illiterate” and writing about “emotion.” If those aren’t codes for her race and gender, I don’t know if I know what is.
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