The Supreme Court’s rare moment of unanimity against a DEI rule, explained

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who authored the Court’s opinion in Ames. | Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The Atlantic

On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed down a raft of mostly unanimous opinions, three of which reached a conservative outcome despite the fact that they were each written by Democratic justices. Sometimes, the law in a case is clear.

Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, authored by Biden-appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was the first of these three cases....