In her dissent in Students for Fair Admissions—the Supreme Court decision that struck down race-based college admissions—Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed that having a black physician more than doubles the likelihood that a high-risk black newborn will live. One problem: The statistic was false.
With Amici Like These …
Advocacy groups are often at odds with the public sentiment they claim to represent in filing briefs to the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announcing his retirement from the Supreme Court on June 1, 1987.(Photo by Diana Walker/Getty Images)
Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announcing his retirement from the Supreme Court on June 1, 1987.(Photo by Diana Walker/Getty Images)



