Universities Circumventing, Even Violating, Ban on Racial Preferences

WASHINGTON - July 10, 2023 - PRLog -- Although the U.S. Supreme Court has in no uncertain terms banned any consideration of race in awarding admission to universities, many are violating or circumventing - or at least actively planning to circumvent - that ruling through various schemes to continue giving preference to a few privileged racial minorities, charges public interest law professor John Banzhaf.

Indeed, in one shocking situation, the dean of a major law school is openly bragging in a video on the Internet about how he had done so for many years in a state where such racial preferences have long been illegal.

Indeed, he even goes so far as to promise his students in a classroom lecture that he would commit perjury to protect his scheme if necessary; see: bit.ly/3O4JWML (https://www.prlog.org/pub/bit.ly/3O4JWML)

Alan Dershowitz explains, Professor Tribe "is advocating a process that leaves the racial quotas or targets essentially intact, while being less transparent about employing race as a criterion to achieve those quotas."

Indeed, it has been revealed that Harvard has already been secretly uncovering the race of applicants, even when they deliberately choose not reveal it, and do not want it considered in evaluating their application.

To deter and undercover such unconstitutional violations, U.S. Senator JD Vance [R-Ohio] has demanded in letters that "all eight Ivy League colleges and universities, as well as Ohio's Oberlin and Kenyon colleges, [to] preserve records for a congressional probe of their efforts to undermine last week's Supreme Court decision overturning race-based admissions." LINK (https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/07/sen-jd-vance-plans...)

But, suggests Banzhaf, wily university bureaucrats will try not allow deliberate constitutional violations to be reflected in documents, including emails or memos of meetings or even telephone conversations.

If any do exist, they may somehow become "lost" or "inadvertently deleted" before they can be forwarded to Vance in response to his demand.  Moreover, university officials probably would not be very forthcoming in any future "congressional probe" and/or hearing of actions taken surreptitiously to deliberately and illegally violate the Constitution.

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