Four Myths About The Supreme Court

In trying to give meaning to such inherently elastic concepts as "equal protection of the laws" and "due process," Justices inevitably make subjective judgments that are colored by their individual views about right and wrong, fair and unfair, wise and unwise. [...] there is a reason Clarence Thomas, who grew up resenting the racial preferences that took him up the educational ladder to Yale Law School, reads the Constitution as imposing absolute color blindness on government actions.