Medical schools issued warning about ‘illegal conduct’ following affirmative action ruling
Kaelan Deese
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EXCLUSIVE — Medical schools that give preference to minorities and female applicants risk lawsuits from America First Legal, the conservative legal group warned in letters sent to “nearly every” U.S. medical school in light of the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action.
America First Legal, a nonprofit group headed by former President Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, told the Washington Examiner exclusively on Thursday that it warned the nation’s top medical schools that they would be sued if they fail to cease discriminating based on race, sex, and national origin in admissions and faculty hiring.
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At least two of the schools that received letters included the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The letters to both institutions called on their administrators to end all forms of affirmative action in response to the Supreme Court ruling, including any efforts that could be construed as “preserving your existing system of discrimination.”
“And you must, before the start of the next academic school year, announce an official policy prohibiting all preferential treatment based on race, national origin, or sex,” the letters added.
Gene Hamilton, America First Legal vice president and general counsel, issued a statement decrying hiring preferences on the basis of race or sex, adding that it’s “particularly egregious when it comes to medical care.”
“Americans should have access to the absolute best medical care in the world — and placing doctors into positions involving life-and-death consequences based on anything other than merit is just wrong,” Hamilton added.
Last week, Miller also announced his nonprofit organization sent a letter to the deans of 200 law schools across the country warning of legal action if they do not follow the high court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.
The justices ruled 6-3, holding that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill did not comply with the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection in its admissions processes. The plaintiffs alleged such admissions practices wrongfully discriminated against Asian Americans at Harvard along with Asian and white students at UNC.
Miller’s letter to Harvard University Law School warned there are those within and outside the institution who might suggest “you can develop an admissions scheme through pretext or proxy to achieve the same discriminatory outcome.”
“Anyone telling you such a thing is coaching you to engage in illegal conduct in brazen violation of a Supreme Court ruling, lawbreaking in which you would be fully complicit and thus fully liable,” Miller added.
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The Washington Examiner contacted officials at both universities for a response.
Read America First Legal’s letters to the institutions below:
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