The Justice Department Says Yale Is Violating Civil Rights Law. It May Be Going For A Knock-Out Blow Against Affirmative Action Everywhere
Potentially, the most important part of the Justice Department letter is that it objects to the fact that: “Yale admits that it intends to continue its race-based admissions process for the ‘foreseeable future’.” Seventeen years ago, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action plan but said: “The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.” No one knows how literally to take that sentence. The Justice Department obviously intends to ask the courts to give it real bite and demand that Yale and other colleges demonstrate that they have a plan to wind down their affirmative action programs over the next several years.
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by Evan Gerstmann, Forbes.