Erections have consequences.[WashingtonExaminer] The Justice Department dropped a case against Yale University that accused the Ivy League school of discriminating against white and Asian applicants in its admissions process.
The Biden administration decision was announced in a filing in federal district court in Connecticut. "The United States accordingly notices voluntary dismissal of this action, without prejudice," said the filing submitted by Gregory Friel, the deputy assistant attorney general for DOJ’s Civil Rights Division — marking a significant reversal from just a few months ago under the Trump administration.
The Justice Department announced a lawsuit against Yale University for alleged discrimination on the basis of race and national origin in October, arguing that the discriminatory admissions practices imposed "undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular most Asian and White applicants." Yale denied the allegations of discrimination.
The Trump Justice Department said a multi-year investigation "found Yale discriminates based on race and national origin in its undergraduate admissions process, and that race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year." It specifically alleged that for the vast majority of applicants, potential Asian American and white students "have only one-eighth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials" and that "Yale rejects scores of Asian American and White applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit."
The Biden Justice Department recently signed executive order declaring that "affirmatively advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity is the responsibility of the whole of our Government."
The Justice Department’s 32-page lawsuit in October argued that "for at least 50 years, Defendant Yale University has intentionally subjected applicants to Yale College to discrimination on the grounds of race and national origin" and "for the last few decades, Yale’s oversized, standardless, intentional use of race has subjected domestic, non-transfer applicants to Yale College to discrimination on the ground of race." DOJ investigators alleged that Yale’s practices violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.