On Monday, the United States Supreme Court announced it would hear a case challenging race-based admission practices in higher education. On Wednesday, the White House confirmed that President Joe Biden would be committed to nominating a Supreme Court justice using a race-based admission practice and would be choosing a black woman for the court to replace the outgoing justice, Stephen Breyer.
Both announcements center around the choosing of a candidate or nominee based on immutable characteristics to determine their qualifications. This juxtaposition was not lost on conservatives who…
