{"id":2207541,"date":"2024-03-27T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T19:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smithsonian-opens-latinx-internship-program-to-all-races-in-face-of-legal-challenge\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T19:24:10","slug":"smithsonian-opens-latinx-internship-program-to-all-races-in-face-of-legal-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smithsonian-opens-latinx-internship-program-to-all-races-in-face-of-legal-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian&#8217;s &#8216;Latinx&#8217; Internship Program Now Open to All, Despite Legal Challenge"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fsmithsonian-opens-latinx-internship-program-to-all-races-in-face-of-legal-challenge%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=2207541&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--><p>The Smithsonian&#8217;s\u2063 Latino history museum \u200drecently settled a \u2064lawsuit by agreeing to open its internship program\u200c to applicants \u2063of all races,\u200d abandoning \u200cthe use of race as an evaluation \u200dcriterion. This decision follows legal \u200bchallenges to race-based diversity\u200d initiatives in \u2062light \u2064of the Supreme Court&#8217;s ban on affirmative \u2062action. The \u2063internship was originally \u200climited to\u2063 Latina, Latino, and\u200c Latinx-identifying undergraduates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Move comes amid a flurry of lawsuits challenging racial preferences<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t(Twitter\/@USLatinoMuseum)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Smithsonian\u2019s Latino history museum will no longer use race to evaluate applicants for its prestigious internship program, according to a settlement agreement released yesterday, the latest in a series of legal blows to race-based diversity initiatives in the wake of the Supreme Court\u2019s ban on affirmative action.<\/p>\n<p>The internship had been reserved for &#8220;Latina, Latino, and Latinx-identifying undergraduate students.&#8221; In February, the American Alliance for Equal Rights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2024\/02\/23\/smithsonian-latino-diversity-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>sued<\/span><\/a> the museum, which explores Hispanic-American history and is located in Washington, D.C., alleging that the program violated the 14th Amendment\u2019s Equal Protection Clause.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than fight the lawsuit, the museum <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/ip-law\/smithsonian-settles-suit-challenging-latino-museum-internship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>agreed to open<\/span><\/a> the internship to all races. It changed the scoring rubric used to evaluate applicants, telling reviewers that they &#8220;should not give preference or restrict selection based on race or ethnicity,&#8221; and added similar language to the museum\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Undergraduate Internship is equally open to students of all races and ethnicities,&#8221; a new Disclaimer on the site reads. &#8220;The Museum does not use racial or ethnic classifications or preferences in selecting awardees for the Undergraduate Internship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Smithsonian is the latest institution to buckle in the face of lawsuits targeting racial preferences. Several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-big-law-bias-to-represent-conservative-clients-top-lawyers-often-forced-to-leave-their-firms\/\" title=\"The Big Law Bias: To Represent Conservative Clients, Top Lawyers Often Forced To Leave Their Firms\">prominent law firms<\/a>, including Morrison Foerster and Perkins Coie, ended or modified their diversity fellowships after the American Alliance for Equal Rights sued them for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascars-minority-internship-program-grounds-for-suing-the-organization-legal-expert\/\" title=\"Legal expert says NASCAR's Minority Internship Program could face legal action.\">excluding white applicants<\/a>. The alliance, which was founded by Edward Blum, the man behind the lawsuit that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-slams-supreme-court-for-affirmative-action-decision-this-is-not-a-normal-court\/\" title=\"Biden criticizes Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling: 'Court is not normal'\">ended affirmative action<\/a>, has also sued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/app\/details\/USCOURTS-gand-1_23-cv-03424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>investment firm<\/span><\/a>, the Fearless Fund, over its race-based grant program.<\/p>\n<p>Similar complaints have been filed by America First Legal, the group led by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, and by the American Civil Rights Project.\t<\/p>\n<p>Though last year\u2019s Supreme Court decision applied only to universities, some lower courts have used the verdict to strike down racial preferences in other contexts. One month after the decision came down, U.S. District Judge Clifton Corker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2023\/09\/07\/sba-8a-program-ruling-affirmative-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>enjoined<\/span><\/a> a minority set-aside program run by the Small Business Association, citing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asian-american-activists-blast-bidens-pandering-anti-racism-order\/\" title=\"Asian-American Activists Blast Biden\u2019s \u2018Pandering\u2019 Anti-Racism Order\">affirmative action case<\/a> as precedent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The facts in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. concerned college admissions programs,&#8221; Corker wrote in a footnote, but its reasoning is not limited to just those programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid lawsuits against racial preferences, Smithsonian\u2019s Latino history museum abandons race-based evaluation for internships in a recent settlement. 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