Ketanji Brown Jackson grills lawyer in case seeking to end affirmative action

Newest member of US supreme court seems to reject idea that affirmative action in university admissions is unconstitutional

The newest US supreme court justice and the bench's first Black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, made a clarion call in favor of keeping race as one of many factors in US higher education admissions, as America's highest court heard oral arguments on the issue of affirmative action.

The court is hearing two back-to-back cases brought against the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Harvard University by a conservative activist group, Students for Fair Admissions, but has not ruled.