In a much-dreaded outcome, the right-wing justices on the Supreme Court have finally decided to end the use of race-conscious affirmative action programs in college and university admissions. Not surprisingly, the same right-wing justices who were so outraged at race-conscious affirmative action showed little concern or similar contempt for donor and legacy admission programs which are a de facto way for unqualified and underqualified white students to buy or otherwise sneak their way into the country's most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
The Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) is now pushing back against the Supreme Court's decision to end affirmative action by filing a federal civil rights complaint against Harvard College "challenging its discriminatory practice of giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to applicants with familial ties to wealthy donors and alumni." Per the law, Harvard will have to end legacy and donor preferences if it wants to continue to receive federal monies.
