The U.S. Department of Justice has joined a lawsuit against the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, alleging that the medical school continues to use race as a criterion in admissions.

California’s Proposition 209 made the use of race illegal in admissions to public universities in 1996, and the U.S. Supreme Court followed suit in 2023 with its ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

The Trump administration has also clamped down on discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies and departments at universities, both private and public.

But many universities have sought to continue racial discrimination under different names and guises.

And it has been an open secret for years that California universities have tried to find proxies for race that could fly under the radar.

The partisan officials who have drawn California’s new congressional maps are continuing that disgraceful tradition, using race as a proxy for political identity.

The fact that these maps were ratified by voters in Proposition 50 should not save them at the U.S. Supreme Court, based on precedent.

Two lawsuits are challenging the maps adopted by Prop. 50, both alleging violations of different parts of the Constitution. 

The first of the two cases to reach the Supreme Court, Tangipa v. Newsom, arrived there on a rocket, after an accelerated mini-trial last December.

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