Breaking 911: Justice Department Files Statement of Interest in Harvard Discrimination Case Defending Claim That Harvard Intentionally Discriminates on the Basis of Race in Admissions
The Department of Justice today filed a Statement of Interest on the side of the plaintiff in Students For Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President And Fellows Of Harvard College in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiff, Students For Fair Admissions, an organization of students and parents, alleges that Harvard College intentionally discriminates against Asian-American applicants when making admissions decisions. The plaintiff seeks relief from Harvard’s alleged discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a cornerstone civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. The Department opened a Title VI investigation into Harvard’s admissions process in 2017 based upon a complaint filed by more than 60 Asian-American organizations.
The United States’ Statement of Interest filed today argues that Harvard has failed to show that it does not unlawfully discriminate against Asian Americans.
As a condition1 of receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year, Harvard specifically agrees to not discriminate on the basis of race in its admissions decisions. However, the students and parents who brought this suit have presented compelling evidence that Harvard’s use of race unlawfully discriminates against Asian Americans. In today’s filing, the United States urges the court to grant the plaintiffs the opportunity to prove these claims at trial.
In filing the Statement of Interest, Attorney General Jeff Sessions provided the following statement:
“No American should be denied admission to school because of their race. As a recipient of taxpayer dollars, Harvard has a responsibility to conduct its admissions policy without racial discrimination by using meaningful admissions criteria that meet lawful requirements. The Department of Justice has the responsibility to protect the civil rights of the American people. This case is significant because the admissions policies at our colleges and universities are important and must be conducted lawfully.”
Harvard admits that it uses race to decide whether to admit certain applicants to the college. Under Supreme Court precedent, Harvard must demonstrate that its use of race does not result in illegal discrimination. Harvard has failed to do so, and the Department filed a Statement of Interest that argues the plaintiffs should be allowed to proceed to a trial. read more here
Why is Harvard receiving taxpayer money in the first place?
@Gladys — Gov’t-backed student loans.
Asians have points deducted for personality and no one in admissions had a problem with it over the years. Can you imagine if that rule were applied to blacks????
Schools need to return to accepting based on SAT and ACT scores. Merit only. Diversity is just an excuse for dumbing down which benefits no one.
I guess the Asians are a bit harder to brainwash than the race based applicants Harvard ReEducation University allows in.
The Harvard prof’s don’t like anime.
I heard Harvard just reached a compromise: they will allow more Asians based upon SAT and ACT scores, but they can’t drive on campus.
This is such an important case. One of our neighbors, a recent honors grad from University of Washington, a brilliant girl — 1st gen Indian — cannot get into a medical school because of quotas. I can’t think of anyone more deserving based on her academic achievement and personal qualities and, yet, she is withering on the vine as a medical transcriber while she waits for an acceptance letter from ANY college. She is now considering a DO opportunity with the military. Not her first choice, but it will at least provide an opportunity to practice medicine.
“No American should be denied admission to school because of their race.”
No American should be admitted because of their (sic) race.
Harvard turns out the sickest, most profoundly anti-American maggots on Earth.
Harvard should issue diplomas on the basis of racial statistics and cut out all the bullshit. A Harvard degree is utterly worthless (in terms of education) and is valuable only in the sense of ties and sock-colors in England – an “old-boy” network of like-minded, hate-filled, supercilious, funny-accented, pretentious maggots.
Lenin would have hanged them all.
And yet they want to suck his (dead) ass.
izlamo delenda est …
@Page O Turner August 31, 2018 at 9:04 am
> Schools need to return to accepting based on SAT and ACT scores.
Schools need to go back to auctioning their wares. Without mugging me to help the shtruggle. Just like eBay. (Well, not “just like eBay”. I know that whole “Money back if not ‘substantially as advertised'” thing would be a deal breaker. But, you know what I mean.)
Because they’re favorite alumni, Bertram F Soetero, is a raging…success story, right?