So, uh, is it just me or does the Roberts opinion basically say that, while colleges cannot use race, they can continue to use metrics that are correlated with race, and a particular metric he might approve of is rewarding 'unique skills' which some particular race is likelier to have than another?
That feels like a recipe for a generation of amazing Asian-American soul food chefs to come into existence. More generally, I think if this decision is both taken seriously and there's no large-scale crackdown on woke institutional decision-making, I think we're going to see some amazing examples of Goodhart's Law in action.
This is a Roberts opiniof