Attorney -General Pam Bondi Targeted Compliance Review Investigations on Thursday to the admission policy at Stanford University and Multiple University of California Schools.
The investigation, led by the Civil Rights division of the Ministry of Justice, will look at Diversity, equity and inclusion (dei) policy in Stanford; University of California, Berkeley; UCLA; And the University of California, Irvine.
After the decision of the American Supreme Court in students for Fair Admissions Inc. Against President & Fellow of Harvard Coll., Hogescholen and universities are forbidden to use dei -discrimination in recordings.
Students walk past Graffiti near Stanford University President Richard Saller’s Office in Palo Alto, California, 5 June 2024. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
The Ministry of Justice (DOJ) Is requiring compliance.
“President (Donald) Trump And I am dedicated to the termination of illegal discrimination and the repair of earnings -based opportunities throughout the country, “Bondi said.” Every student in America deserves to be assessed exclusively on the basis of his hard work, intellect and character, not the color of their skin. “
For decades “Priorities Elite Hogescholen and Universities” racial quota About equality of opportunities, “according to a press release from the Public Affairs Office of Doj.
Students investigate Graffiti at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, 5 June 2024. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
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The DOJ claims that the practice of Americans distributed and discriminated against entire groups of applicants.
The Trump administration has submitted an emergency this week Supreme Court Profession, which, if granted, would lower hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies from the educational department.
FOX News Digital reported this week that several colleges in Virginia cut off their dei departments and initiatives and were in line with the guidelines of Trump’s Executive Order.
Stanford University in Stanford, California, September 14, 2023. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty images)
The earlier administration “promoted the ideology behind this illegal practice and did nothing to protect the civil rights of American students,” wrote the Doj in the release.
“The Ministry of Justice will put an end to a shameful system in which someone’s race matters more than their assets,” said Acting Associate Attorney General Chad Mizelle. “Every college and university must know that illegal discrimination in recordings will be investigated and eliminated.”
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The compliance investigations into these universities are only the beginning of the work of the department in exterminating illegal dei and protecting equality under the law, “the Doj said.
Jeffrey Clark and Charles Creitz from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
