The U.S. Constitution makes it very plain that basing policies, regulations, and laws on race is not permissible. It doesn’t matter what intent behind race-based policies is, you can’t do it, period. And that’s the way it should be. Race over merit is never acceptable.
That said, left-wing commies currently taking over the Democrat Party don’t care about the Constitution. Not really, anyway. They care about certain provisions when it suits their needs, but ignore the rest of it when it blocks them from achieving their desired objectives.
That’s why, at the colleges and universities they operate, they continue to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling that race-based admission standards are blatantly unconstitutional.
Thank goodness we now have a Justice Department that is being run not by operatives of the Domestic Terrorist Party but by men and women who actually respect the Constitution and the rule of law:
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has concluded the University of California, Davis School of Medicine violated federal civil rights law by discriminating on the basis of race in its admissions process following the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action.
The finding stems from a six-month investigation by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division into admissions practices implemented after the 2023 Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard decision, which prohibited colleges and universities from considering race in admissions decisions.
According to the department, UC Davis Medical School sought to preserve racial diversity by relying on socioeconomic factors that effectively served as proxies for race.
Investigators reviewed admissions records, internal communications and applicant data covering the period from 2019 through 2025.
The Justice Department concluded that school officials intentionally developed policies designed to maintain racial balancing despite the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Central to the investigation was the “Davis Scale,” a system created by Associate Dean of Admissions Dr. Mark Henderson that measures socioeconomic disadvantage using factors including parental income, parental education, growing up in medically underserved communities, participation in assistance programs and family responsibilities. …
White and Asian applicants also posted higher average GPAs and MCAT scores than admitted students from some other racial groups, according to the investigation.
The DOJ found that Henderson admitted he was skirting the Supreme Court ruling to effectively discriminate against qualified student applicants who were white.
“I’d call it class-based affirmative action. Class struggles have a huge overlap with race — that’s how we skirted the issue,” Henderson reportedly said, according to the department’s findings.
Well, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon has a message for Dr. Henderson et al: You can’t do that, and we won’t let you continue to do that.
In a letter to the university, she said the findings demonstrated unlawful discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“Based on our review, the Department has found that Davis Med is violating Title VI by discriminating on the basis of race in its admissions process,” she wrote. “The Department finds that Davis Med discriminated against white and Asian applicants to Davis Med on the basis of race.”
She went on to say that the DOJ will pursue voluntary compliance actions, but if that doesn’t work, she’s prepared to drop the legal hammer on UC-Davis.
Good on her. It’s good to see these leftist commies held accountable for a change.
