As I noted yesterday, it’s expected that the Biden administration will reverse the Trump administration’s position supporting the appeal to the Supreme Court by Asian-American students who maintain that Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants in admissions (Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard).
Today, the Justice Department notified the U.S. District Court in Connecticut that the Biden administration was dropping a similar lawsuit filed by the Trump administration against Yale. The Trump Justice Department alleged that Asians and whites were only one-tenth to one-quarter as likely to be admitted to Yale as similarly situated blacks.
As a friend emails, “. . . it is . . . something . . . to do this [drop the Yale suit] a mere eight days after issuing a presidential “Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.”
Maybe this is what the administration means by “racial equity.”
Biden dropped the lawsuit because the Asian Americans were listed alongside White’s as being only 1/10 – 1/4 the chance of getting into Yale as similarly situated Blacks.
It’s the fight against White Privilege of the SJW Biden is trying to appease. Remove the reference to Whites in the lawsuit and he will let it on through.