This excerpt is from a piece originally ran by Teen Vogue on October 12, 2020.
As the Alliance for Justice documented, Barrett once sided against a Black worker “whose employer transferred him to an another store through an alleged practice of segregating employees by race.” And legal scholars worry about the conservative judge’s potential rulings on affirmative action cases. If we’re going to continue our crucial conversation on race, we can’t have a Supreme Court justice who’s hell-bent on ending it.