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Some Supreme Court cases are not difficult because of the legal questions; they are difficult because of the narratives that test them.

Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services , in which the Supreme Court correctly struck down a judge-made rule that imposed a higher burden of proof on discrimination plaintiffs from so-called majority groups, is one of those cases. The court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was right to remind us that Title VII speaks to individuals, not demographics. And it was right to do so at a moment when the meaning of civil rights law is being contested from e

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