Trump Admin Joins Race-Based Admissions Lawsuit Against UCLA Med School
“As the Supreme Court has made clear, admission into our nation’s educational institutions cannot be based on discriminatory racial policies”
Higher education claims to be so progressive, yet over and over again, it is a huge civil rights violator.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Trump Admin Joins Lawsuit Against UCLA Med School, Unveiling New Data on Race-Based Admissions
The Department of Justice on Wednesday joined a discrimination lawsuit against the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, unveiling new data that shows the extent of the school’s racial preferences. The filing is the latest setback for the elite medical school, which has endured an onslaught of scandals—largely due to the Washington Free Beacon’s reporting—since 2024.
“As the Supreme Court has made clear, admission into our nation’s educational institutions cannot be based on discriminatory racial policies,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a press release. “Today’s intervention is the Department of Justice’s latest effort to hold our universities accountable for unlawful policy — especially in the state of California.”
Filed by Students for Fair Admissions and Do No Harm, the underlying complaint was based on a Free Beacon report about UCLA medical school’s continued use of racial preferences. The Justice Department’s brief includes previously unreported data on the scale of those preferences.
In 2024, for example, after the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action went into effect, Hispanic students in the incoming class had a median MCAT score of just 506—the 66th percentile of all test-takers—whereas Asians had a median score of 515, the 90th percentile.
Previous years saw similar numbers, with black and and Hispanic students scoring well below their white and Asian peers.
The figures complement emails and whistleblower accounts published by the Free Beacon that indicate a pervasive pattern of race discrimination at one of the top medical schools in California, where affirmative action has been illegal since 1996.
Led by admissions dean Jennifer Lucero, who also serves as the vice chair for equity, diversity, and inclusion of UCLA’s anesthesiology department, the school implemented selection policies that insiders say have proven disastrous, driving down exam scores and forcing more students to retake classes. One professor told the Free Beacon that students on their clinical rotations “don’t know anything.”
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Affirmative action destroyed standards.
The Covid fraud destroyed credibility.
Rampant wokeness destroyed trust.
Add the many recent reports of so-called medical “professionals” who have openly stated that they will refuse to treat or actively harm patients whose politics they disagree with and it becomes obvious that the medical “profession” is totally dysfunctional. Visit a “doctor” at your own risk.
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