Warren was so concerned about racial equality that, as a white person, she took positions that may well have otherwise gone to a member of an actual minority. Back in the day, workplaces and schools loved to fill positions with someone who satisfied their requirements under two categories, "female" and "member of a minority."

Also, one of Warren's major benefactors, Barack Obama, CLAIMED to want to eliminate race-based affirmative action, perhaps replacing it with affirmative action based on finances. https://www.politico.com/story/2008/08/obama-shifts-affirmative-action-rhetoric-012421; https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/05/12/barack-obama-and-affirmative-action; https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88478467 I don't recall Warren speaking out then.

Of course, that was 2008 Candidate Obama, who was very different from pre-national office campaign Obama and from President Obama; and all of the foregoing were different from post-Presidency Obama. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/6/29/23778469/affirmative-action-supreme-court-barack-michelle-obama-react However, all of the foregoing Obamas share at least one common trait: wanting to have it every which way. And, post-Presidency Obama has finally answered a question some asked of 2008 Obama, namely, had he and his wife benefited from affirmative action.

But back to Warren: The current Supreme Court did not veer from all affirmative action precedent. The Bakke case (1978) was the landmark case on the subject. It is often described as upholding affirmative action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_University_of_California_v._Bakke

I disagree with that characterization. What the Bakke case held was that affirmative action quotas were unconstitutional. However, the Bakke opinion specified that schools could consider race as ONE factor in the admissions process/considerations. IOW, a college is allowed to strive for a diverse student body.

Colleges have always done a version of that, even when they discriminated against Jews, racial minorities and women, by looking at where a student came from, what kinds of things he had done before applying for college, etc. The concept is that diversity contributes to education and preparation for the "real world" (whatever that is).

Bottom iine: As usual, Warren is full of it--and, by "it," I don't mean pow wow chow.