Trump examines Harvard Regulation's overview of the discrimination in opposition to racial discrimination

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The Trump administration announced investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review on Monday, after a report that the prestigious legal journal selected the publication of articles for publication on the basis of the breed of its authors and not the merit.

The announcement is made as a Trump administration and Harvard feud on the government's demands that Ivy League University accepts a number of changes, including the reduction of its DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion – programs and international students on ideological red flags.

Two weeks ago, the Trump administration born to Harvard due to concerns about anti -Semitism on campus and other topics.

Harvard sued the administration last week and questioned the legality of freezing.

On Monday, the civil rights offices included both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Human Services that they would examine allegations of discriminatory practices at Harvard Law Review.

“The investigation is a response to information that ED and HHS have received on guidelines and practices for membership and article selection of journal, which may violate title VI of the Civil Rights Act from 1964,” according to a joint explanation of the departments.

Title VI -Bar's recipient of the financial support of the federal government – like Harvard – “from discrimination due to breed, color or national origin in the programs or activities of the recipient,” said the departments.

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The departments said that they would examine Harvard's relationship with the legal examination, “including financial relationships, supervisory proceedings and selection guidelines and other documentation for both membership and for the article publication”.

The probes were three days after the publication of the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news site, an article under the heading “Exclusive: Internal documents show that the ubiquitous pattern of pattern of racial discrimination at Harvard Law Review shows.

The article quoted what it said internally
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In the article it was said that “a little more than half of the journal members … are only approved on the academic performance”.

“The rest is selected by a” holistic review committee “that has made the admission of” underrepresented groups ” – to include breed, gender identity and sexual orientation – according to the” first priority “, according to the resolution, which was passed in 2021,” says the article.

The Free Beacon also said that the legal check “had installed races in almost every phase of its article selection process”, and that “the editors routinely kill or progress, some of which are based on the author's race”.

This joint explanation on Monday of the US departments in which their investigation was announced quoted the article of the free Beacon to quote a Law Review editor who wrote that it was “concerned” that “”[f]Our of the five people “who wanted to answer an article about police reforms” are white men “.”

The explanation also cited another line in the article in which another HLR editor suggested “that a piece of an accelerated review was subject to the author was a minority.”

Craig Trainor, the incumbent deputy secretary of the educational department for civil rights, said in a statement: “The article selection procedure by Harvard Law Review seems to choose the winner and loser based on the breed and use a prey system in which the breed of the legal scholar is not even more important than earning the submission.”

“The demands of title VI are clear: Recipients of the financial support of the federal government may not discriminate on the basis of breed, color or national origin,” said trainor. “No institution – no matter in his family tree, prestige or assets – is above the law over the law. The Trump administration does not allow Harvard or other recipients of federal funds to neither the civil rights of another.”

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