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Affirmative Action on the Chopping Block

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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Harvard and UNC vs Harvard Admissions - Is There a Race Neutral Alternative?

In both cases, we have over a hundred page opinions from the district court. The opinion and Harvard also in tremendous detail lays out how there was no evidence of discrimination against Asian Americans in the Harvard admissions process. And so an example, Catherine Ho, who is Vietnamese American was actually able to look back at her application as she was testifying during trial and see the notes that admissions officers left in her file. So you know, it's really incredible that we have this amount of evidence and detail right down to the application files and still the plaintiffs were not able to find evidence of discrimination.

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