Practice writing like a Supreme Court justice

Consider this wordy version of a passage from Justice Jackson’s powerful dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, a landmark affirmative action case. Then, try to rewrite it clearly and concisely—just like she did.

Jackson Concise Writing Exercise

Write it like Justice Jackson

Wordy version (111 words, 594 characters):

With a level of detachment that harkens back to Marie Antoinette’s oblivious statement of let them eat cake, today, the majority initiates a judicial mechanism that imposes an interpretation of “colorblindness for all” by authoritative decree. However, reaching a point to deem race irrelevant in law does not achieve the same objective in lived human experience. Moreover, having done such detachment from the actual past and present experiences in this country, the Court now finds itself in a place where it has been lured into interfering with the ongoing and crucial work that UNC and analogous institutions of higher learning are undertaking to find solutions to the real-world problems in America.
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