Biden-Harris Education Department Sued Over Race-Based ‘Achievement Program’ (townhall.com)
The Biden-Harris administration is being sued over an “unconstitutional” and “discriminatory” U.S. Department of Education program that deems certain students “ineligible” to participate due to their race.
Two college students sued the Biden-Harris administration on Wednesday, saying that the Department of Education is illegally denying them eligibility for a scholarship program because they are white.
The lawsuit was filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL). WILL filed the suit on behalf of University of Wisconsin-Madison student Benjamin Rothove, University of North Dakota student Avery Durfee, and the Young America’s Foundation. The suit says that the Education Department’s $60 million Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program violates the equal protection rights of white, Asian, Jewish, and Arab students. According to the program’s stipulations, applicants must be from a group “underrepresented” in graduate education, or else be a low-income, first-generation college student.
Conservative activists have filed a lawsuit alleging a U.S. Department of Education initiative designed to boost the number of low-income and minority students getting doctoral degrees unconstitutionally discriminates based on race.
Young America’s Foundation, a conservative youth group, and one of its student chapters at the University of North Dakota said in a federal lawsuit, opens new tab filed on Tuesday in the state that the U.S. government’s $60 million program could not stand after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling ending affirmative action in college admissions.
