Top Democrats in Congress are pressuring the Justice and Education Departments to stop the administration’s plans to investigate and potentially sue universities that intentionally discriminate against applicants based on race. In their letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), Representative John Conyers (D., Mich.), and others embrace the Alice in Wonderland worldview in which curtailing racial discrimination “would undermine civil rights protections.” Earlier this month, the New York Times published an internal DOJ memo recruiting attorneys to work on this project ...

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Democrats Pressure the Federal Government to Support Racial Discrimination

Elizabeth Slattery, Hans A. von Spakovsky

Top Democrats in Congress are pressuring the Justice and Education Departments to stop the administration’s plans to investigate and potentially sue universities that intentionally discriminate against applicants based on race. In their letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Senator...

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