From the NY Times:
The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of violating federal civil rights law by discriminating against Asian-American and white applicants, an escalation of the Trump administration’s moves against race-based admissions policies at elite universities.
The charge, coming after a two-year investigation, is the administration’s second confrontation with an Ivy League school; two years ago, it publicly backed Asian-American students who accused Harvard in a lawsuit of systematically discriminating against them.
The department’s finding could have far-reaching consequences for the ongoing legal challenges to affirmative action, which are expected to eventually reach the Supreme Court...
Note that even if Trump is replaced by Biden, and if 209 is repealed by voters in November (as the Regents now would prefer), a private lawsuit could be filed against UC as in the Harvard case and ultimately make its way to the now-conservative U.S. Supreme Court. In that case, a Biden Dept. of Justice might support UC's practices.As in the case of just about everything else nowadays, we will see.
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/02/update-on-harvard-admissions.html
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See my post on this issue at https://gasstationwithoutpumps.wordpress.com/2020/08/01/uc-is-implementing-anti-asian-policies/
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