DOJ to Go After Affirmative Action
If you have Jeff Sessions as the next person in the Trump administration to reset the Trump Admin Dead Pool, you may want to hold off on making that bet. The DOJ is currently looking for lawyers to challenge affirmative action used in college admissions. Some will say this is a bit of flexing to somehow intimidate colleges and universities, but the question is to get them to do what exactly?
This is not a ploy, and this is not just rattling the cage, this is about a specific objective. The objective is to get the now conservative leaning Supreme Court to reverse their decision on affirmative action, get rid of race based admissions, and ensure tables are tilted towards white students. This is what we call synergy, the Department of Justice working hand in hand with the Department of Education.
Betsy Devos is working to get money out of public school, especially under performing public schools. Who attends those under performing schools, you know exactly who attends those schools. By under funding public schools, creating a voucher program where private schools don’t have to accept the voucher, or can raise tuition so high that families with vouchers can’t afford them, they are systematically trying to keep the under privileged out of higher education. Inner city public schools are only going to get worse under Devos and if we remove affirmative action, the schools no longer have an incentive to accept minority students for the sake of adding diversity.
Justice Department officials are planning a new project to investigate and sue universities over affirmative action admissions policies they determine discriminate against white applicants, according to a U.S. government official.
The project will be based out of the department’s civil rights division, which is now looking for lawyers interested in working on “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions,” according to a person familiar with an internal announcement in the civil rights division.
Officials said the project will not operate out of the civil rights division’s Educational Opportunities Section, where career Justice attorneys oversee cases on universities, but instead in the front office of the division. The project was first reported Tuesday night by the New York Times.
But at least one key official has expressed skepticism of race-conscious admissions: Candice Jackson, acting head of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, wrote in 2005 that such policies dismiss “the very real prices paid by individual people who end up injured by affirmative action.”
Two people familiar with the internal discussions at the Justice Department’s civil rights division said that the move came after career staffers who specialize in education issues refused to work on the project out of concerns it was contrary to the office’s long-running approach to civil rights in education opportunities. As a result, political leadership within the department decided to run the effort themselves, these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said.
“Long-standing Supreme Court precedent has upheld the constitutionality and compelling state interest of these policies, and generations of Americans have benefited from richer, more inclusive institutions of higher education,” Gupta said.
Anurima Bhargava, a former Obama administration official, called the move a “scare tactic” meant to unnerve colleges and universities.
“The goal here is to drum up a bunch of fear and intimidate schools who are trying to provide a pipeline to leadership for all Americans,” said Bhargava, who served as chief of the educational opportunities section of the civil rights division at the Justice Department.
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