UNDER Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DoJ) has abandoned voting-rights litigation, tried to punish sanctuary cities, cracked down on undocumented immigrants, revoked sentencing reforms and argued that civil-rights laws do not protect gays and lesbians from employment discrimination. Now the DoJ is entering the fray on affirmative action. It is recruiting lawyers to investigate a complaint that Harvard University’s pursuit of campus diversity comes at the expense of Asian-Americans.
After whites, who constitute about half of Harvard’s student body, Asians are the largest demographic group, accounting for 22% of the class arriving on campus later this month. But a lawsuit filed in 2014 by Edward Blum—architect of six race-tinged Supreme Court cases—says their share should be higher. He claims that Harvard’s “holistic” admissions policy disguises “the fact that it holds Asian-Americans to a...Continue reading
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