High Court Harvard Ruling Caps Roberts’ Long-held Views on Race

Chief Justice John Roberts at times has tried to slow the Supreme Court’s conservative revolution. But he was in the vanguard Thursday, enshrining his long-held views in a signature opinion abolishing racial preferences in college admissions.

Roberts’ 40-page opinion for the court said the Constitution requires the government – and in some cases private entities like Harvard College – to be colorblind, barring racial distinctions whether they benefit minorities or White people.

“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Roberts wrote. He blasted his three dissenting colleagues for trying to create “a judiciary that picks winners and losers ...