Hullabaloo Fri, 07/07/2023 - 07:00

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Fri, 07/07/2023 - 07:00
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Fri, 07/07/2023 - 07:00
Law schools that give preferences to minorities and women in admissions and hiring risk getting sued by America First Legal, the conservative legal group warned in a letter to 200 U.S. law schools following last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on affirmative action. America First Legal, a nonprofit group headed by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, said on its website that it sent the letter threatening to sue the law schools if they extend any “discriminatory preferences” based on race, gender or national origin. The group also said decisions based on factors in an applicant’s biography that could serve as a proxy for race—such as socioeconomic status—is also unlawful. The letter, dated June 30 and reviewed by Reuters, came one day after the U.S. Supreme Court held that giving some minority college applicants a boost over others based on their race violated the U.S. Constitution. “You must immediately announce the termination of all forms of race, national origin, and sex preferences in student admissions, faculty hiring, and law review membership or article selection,” the letter said, adding that law schools “must” announce policies prohibiting preferential treatment before the start of the school year. Who the hell do Stephen Miller and his grubby little minions think they are? The last I heard we have a judicial system and you need to have standing if you want to sue someone. Is the new rule that everyone can just bring a hypothetical case against anyone just in case they might violate what some jerk like Miller decides…