Posted on 02/23/2025 2:44:06 PM PST by Libloather
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has committed to ending affirmative action and DEI in education — but top universities’ scofflaw behavior means that new Attorney General Pam Bondi will have a tough fight on her hands.
In her first day on the job, Bondi announced she will require compliance with Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the 2023 Supreme Court decision that banned affirmative action in college admissions.
“Educational agencies, colleges and universities that receive federal funds may not ‘treat some students worse than others in part because of race,’” Bondi wrote in a memo.
What a welcome change: For almost two years, elite universities have ignored the high court’s ruling and continued to grant race-based preferences to black and Hispanic applicants while penalizing Asians.
And why wouldn’t they? The last administration refused to enforce the law — and even told schools how to evade it.
In one instance, former President Joe Biden advised universities to give “serious consideration to the adversities that students have overcome,” such as “personal experiences of hardship or discrimination, including racial discrimination.”
At least some universities will undoubtedly flout Bondi’s warning and continue using sneaky tactics to keep on using racial preferences in admissions — just like the University of California has allegedly been doing for decades since the Golden State barred it, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed last week.
Which elite universities should the DOJ keep an eye on?
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Yay
Focusing on the enemy fortress: UC
Forget the lawsuits - just threaten to take back the land and bulldoze the buildings
UC’s are Land Grant universities. The Federal government gave them the dirt with conditions.
Universities and colleges need to not only abide by this but they need to abide by the law that requires them to report each year the foreign countries that are giving them money and how much. They have failed to do this and nothing is being done about it. Ever wonder why China has such influence in our higher education establishments?
The fastest way to gain compliance would be to develop a legal document that each college and university must sign before receiving any federal funds for any purpose.
Then if they lie about affirmative action on that document the funds can be with-held and university officials can be indicted for lying to the feds.
In the meantime offer a bounty to any university employee or student or parent/relative who reports de facto affirmative action that leads to the conviction of any university official.
It will only take a couple of university officials in prison to fix the problem.
No Fed Student loans.
Stop Fed funding of Unis. Make them all go Hillsdale.
Did they lie to the Supreme Court in 2023, or are they engaging in unlawful discrimination now?
Of course they did. Nor does the SCOTUS exercise enforcement. But that leads one to ask...
Does the SCOTUS have the means to exact fines or restitution? In a case like this, $100 million would not be out of line. What if Congress empowered the SCOTUS to exact fines upon a finding of failure to comply with an order?
Even though women outnumber men in college by a wide margin, I bet, ignoring sports, they still spend much more on female recruiting and scholarships.
SAT SCORES-—period
Yep. Spoken like a true conservative.
Cut government funding and let colleges admit whomever they want.
I'm sick of both sides. Both the Left and the Right want to dictate everything.
The democrats in California were ordered to stop discriminating against asians as they did if their score was higher then those groups the democrats wanted so they instad simply reject any applicant if their name was asian.
No review was done. No reason given. It takes years for this to be found out and another lawsuit filed.
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