{"id":177313,"date":"2021-02-26T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=177313"},"modified":"2021-02-26T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:59:00","slug":"student-group-sues-yale-for-discrimination-revives-trump-era-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-group-sues-yale-for-discrimination-revives-trump-era-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Group Sues Yale for Discrimination, Revives Trump-Era Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudent-group-sues-yale-for-discrimination-revives-trump-era-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=177313&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1041857750_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A student group filed suit against Yale University on the grounds that the school discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants, pressuring federal judges to pick up a similar case the Biden administration recently abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut Thursday, Students for Fair Admissions claims Yale violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bans federally funded institutions from race-based discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Latest News<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/student-group-sues-yale-for-discrimination-revives-trump-era-case\/\"><strong>Student Group Sues Yale for Discrimination, Revives Trump-Era Case<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/minnesota-republicans-call-for-environmental-activists-resignation\/\"><strong>Minnesota Republicans Call For Environmental Activist&#8217;s Resignation<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/senators-push-for-answers-on-amazon-book-ban\/\"><strong>Senators Push For Answers on Amazon Book Ban<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SFFA pledged to take up the suit after the Justice Department<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/justice-dept-abandons-admissions-discrimination-lawsuit-against-yale\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dropped<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">its Trump-era case against Yale on Feb. 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The change in presidential administrations has opened a new chapter in affirmative action cases against two of the nation\u2019s most prestigious universities. While President Trump\u2019s Justice Department backed SFFA\u2014the plaintiff in cases against Yale and Harvard University\u2014President Joe Biden\u2019s incoming administration is likely to defend both Ivy Leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DOJ sued Yale in October after a two-year federal investigation found the school unlawfully used race as a &#8220;determinative&#8221; factor in their selection process. Racially favored groups, including black and Hispanic applicants, were in some cases<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/data-reveal-how-yale-discriminates-based-on-race\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eight times<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as likely to be admitted as their equally qualified Asian peers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yale maintains that its admissions processes are legal and nondiscriminatory, a spokeswoman told the<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;For decades, Yale has created an academically excellent and diverse student body through admissions policies that comply fully with the decisions of the Supreme Court and that do not discriminate against any racial or ethnic group,&#8221; Karen Peart, Yale\u2019s director of communications, said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SFFA\u2019s lawsuit and Trump Justice Department findings paint a &#8220;misleading&#8221; picture of the school\u2019s admissions process, according to Peart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The lawsuit that SFFA filed yesterday simply resurrects the misleading statistics, factual errors, and legal misstatements that the Trump administration included in its suit, which the Department of Justice has since withdrawn,&#8221; Peart said. &#8220;Yale remains fully committed to assembling an excellent and diverse student body.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yale began using quotas in the 1920s to discriminate and exclude Jewish applicants, SFFA\u2019s complaint notes. It also states Yale used quotas in the 1970s to target favorable minority groups\u2014which at the time included black, Hispanic, and Asian applicants\u2014and that the school excluded Asian Americans from that list in the 1980s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SFFA also<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/supreme-court-pressed-to-take-up-harvard-affirmative-action-case\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">petitioned<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Supreme Court to take up a related case against Harvard University on Thursday. The group alleges that Harvard, like Yale, tinkered with racial demographics and discriminated against Asian Americans while doing so. That case effectively asks the High Court to review the legal basis of affirmative action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edward Blum, president of SFFA, declined the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>\u2019s request for comment but called admissions processes that favor one minority over another &#8220;unnecessary&#8221; and &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; in a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/samv91khoyt2i553a2t1s05i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SFFA-Yale-Press-Release-2-25-21.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">press release.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Yale, Harvard \u2026 and many dozens of other highly competitive colleges and universities employ admissions practices that are discriminatory, unnecessary, and unconstitutional,&#8221; Blum said. &#8220;Students applying to undergraduate and postgraduate programs should be judged on their individual talents, character, academic skills, extracurricular achievements and socio-economic background but not the color of their skin.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student group filed suit against Yale University on the grounds that the school discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants, pressuring federal judges to pick up a similar case the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274310,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1041857750_736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Student Group Sues Yale for Discrimination, Revives Trump-Era Case","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1041857750_736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Student Group Sues Yale for Discrimination, Revives Trump-Era Case","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}