Supreme Court news: The Constitution is colorblind, unless ICE is searching you.

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In 2007, Chief Justice John Roberts famously declared: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” With those words, the court’s conservative majority announced a “colorblind Constitution”—one that rendered race-conscious remedies presumptively unconstitutional. That vision culminated recently in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard , in which the court effectively ended affirmative action in higher education by invoking the logic of colorblindness. The court’s conservative majority decided that the 14 th Amendment’s equal protection clause, which tolerates no government distinctions on the basis of