The Biden administration filed a brief at the Supreme Court Wednesday calling on the court to reject an appeal from a group that sued Harvard alleging the Ivy League school engaged in racial discrimination against Asians.
The brief delineates the government’s position in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, a case in which a group of Asian students alleged that Harvard for discriminated against them as a group in admissions.
The case has been winding its way through lower courts for several years, and Harvard has won victories at both the district and appellate court levels. Now the case lies before the Supreme Court, who could choose to take it or reject the petition and let the lower court ruling stand.
The plaintiffs in the case have alleged that Harvard deliberately refused to accept Asian American applicants because the demographic group would be overrepresented on campus if all qualified applicants were admitted.
Students for Fair Admissions, in their petition for the Supreme Court to take the case, has asked the court to overrule its prior cases upholding affirmative action in college admissions, most notably its 2003 landmark case Grutter v. Bollinger. In their brief supporting Harvard, the Biden administration asked the court to reject that petition.
The prior cases had allowed university admissions to consider race when accepting applicants, provided that it was only used as a secondary measure.
“The principles that Grutter articulated are correct,” the Biden administration said in its filing. “The Court explained that the educational benefits of diversity may qualify as a compelling interest because a university may conclude that those benefits are ‘essential to its educational mission.’”
Kenny Xu, the author of The Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy, said the arguments in the brief show the Biden administration is “more than willing to suppress and exclude Asian American excellence in this country.”
“Asian Americans are the unwilling victims of leftists’ attempts to destroy meritocracy,” Xu told the Washington Examiner.
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Biden should correct all the shit he has done wrong. Sn keep his big nose out of the courts. He has done nothing but screw up this country.
Biden administration is wrong on this. Let the Asians in. Let excellence prevail!
biden is a disaster Anytthing he does, says touches is corrupt, criminal What does he have against asian Americans attending Harvard Why is he still in office He is a criminal, corrupt, with a criminal family Jill is an adulteress, a terrible first lady, Brother James under investigation, Hunter a total disaster , He belongs in jail but is protected by Biden Impeach him and we get rid of the corrupt family He is destroying America Is Obama pulling the strings?
If these Asian students are American citizens then Harvard has no real reason to refuse these students as long as their grades are up to standards and they have no criminal backgrounds that make them unacceptable, no reason except racial prejudice
Because even Socialist students China from have enough Brains not to vote for that brain-dead fraudulently elected moron in the White House
Maybe they’re discriminating against Asians, but we all know Biden and the rest of the left really hate white people. Especially those of us who voted for and support President Trump. If there’s any group they want out of the way, it’s conservative straight white males.
Maybe they’re discriminating against Asians, but we all know Biden and the rest of the left really hate white people. Especially those of us who voted for and support President Trump. If there’s any group they want out of the way, it’s conservative straight white males.