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Anthony S. Chen

Harvard, Asian Americans and Jews

A general view of Harvard University campus is seen on April 22, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

This month's oral arguments about affirmative action before the Supreme Court featured a slickly executed call-and-response between the attorney for Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) and several of the justices in the conservative majority. 

In his opening statement, SFFA's Cameron T. Norris, who once clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas, compared "what Harvard is doing to Asians" to "what it was doing to Jews in the 1920s."

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