Backers of the legal challenge to Harvard University’s affirmative action program currently pending in the US supreme court have based their case in part on evidence drawn from the flawed analysis of a Holocaust denier who publishes virulent antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and neo-Nazi screeds.
The challenge to Harvard’s race-conscious admissions policy is the most hotly awaited decision from the court as it enters the critical final month of its judicial term.
The six rightwing justices commanding the super-majority are widely expected to side with the petitioners and eviscerate the use of race as a factor in evaluating students – a practice that has been commonplace in American higher education for more than 40 years.
Their ruling could come as early as this week.
The case is one of two challenges to affirmative action (the other involving the University of North Carolina) that have been brought before the supreme court by the conservative group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA). Its complaint accuses Harvard of racially discriminating against Asian Americans in the name of “diversity”.
The complaint, as well as four supporting briefs presented to the justices by aligned groups also calling for an end to affirmative action, draws heavily from a 2012 article by Ron Unz, a Californian multimillionaire and former Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a controversial track record. That 2012 piece has been criticized for being riddled with errors and for espousing views verging on...
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