Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring legal issues in the news and Today Bloomberg lahst dun Grasso discusses reports that the Trump administration is planning to investigate anti white bias in US college admissions. She speaks with Casey Johnson, a professor at Brooklyn College. Casey, let's start with the Supreme Courts position on affirmative action.
What is it? The Court has said that, under limited circumstances, colleges and universities can use race in the admissions process. They can't use it as a quota, they can't have a large numerical scale, but in what universities often call a holistic environment, which is that race can be used as one of a number of factors to tip up
at applicants uh candidacy in the admissions process. There have been three decisions, one in eight one in two thousand three, the most recent this Fisher decision out of the University of Texas. So there's some limitations on universities can do, but they they are allowed to use race in the in the process. So what do you envision this investigation will entail. One of the questions, the question of of affirmative action and higher education has been something that divided
liberals and conservatives for forty years. This is why it's constantly gone back to the court. The conservative argument is that despite these decisions from the Supreme Court saying you can't use quotas, that effectively what elite universities have done is to use quotas. If you look at the percentage of students African American or Hispanic students at Harvard or Yale,
it's roughly the same percentage every year. So the argument that I think is behind the Attorney General's claim here is that if the government can get inside these university admissions offices, what they will discover, and again there's no hard evidence of that, um, what they'll discover is that universities are going beyond the limitations that the Supreme Court has said in tipping up the scales for for Africa,
mostly African American and Hispanic applicants. That's Casey Johnson, a professor at Brooklyn College, speaking with Bloomberg Law host Jing Grosso. You can listen at Bloomberg Law weekdays at one pm all street time here on Bloomberg Radio Now. Among top legal stories from Bloomberg Law. A jury in Brooklyn today begins four days of deliberations in the Martin schu Kelley fraud case. Kelly is accused of taking money from investors in his hedge funds and using it to start his
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