Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted the Supreme Court for its decision on affirmative action, saying the justices' claims are "ludicrous."

The Supreme Court effectively banned affirmative action, a process in which colleges and universities use race as a factor when considering admissions. The high court ruled against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, ending a decadeslong process.

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Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House Progressive Caucus, tweeted her outrage at the affirmative action decision.

"If SCOTUS was serious about their ludicrous 'colorblindness' claims, they would have abolished legacy admissions, aka affirmative action for the privileged," Ocasio-Cortez said. "70% of Harvard's legacy applicants are white. SCOTUS didn't touch that — which would have impacted them and their patrons."

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a rebuke of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions, saying the majority opinion has "let-them-eat-cake obliviousness." She recused herself from the Harvard case but did hear the UNC case.

"With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces 'colorblindness for all' by legal fiat," Jackson wrote in an opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. "But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life."

Justice Clarence Thomas criticized Jackson's dissent in his concurrence.

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"As she sees things, we are all inexorably trapped in a fundamentally racist society, with the original sin of slavery and the historical subjugation of black Americans still determining our lives today," Thomas wrote.

"Worse still, Justice Jackson uses her broad observations about statistical relationships between race and select measures of health, wealth, and well-being to label all blacks as victims," Thomas wrote at another point in his concurrence. "Her desire to do so is unfathomable to me."