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Trump’s Justice Dept. vows to end college affirmative action — here’s where to start

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President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has committed to ending affirmative action and DEI in education — but top universities’ scofflaw behavior means that new Attorney General Pam Bondi will have a tough fight on her hands.

In her first day on the job, Bondi announced she will require compliance with Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the 2023 Supreme Court decision that banned affirmative action in college admissions.

“Educational agencies, colleges and universities that receive federal funds may not ‘treat some students worse than others in part because of race,’” Bondi wrote in a memo.

What a welcome change: For almost two years, elite universities have ignored the high court’s ruling and continued to grant race-based preferences to black and Hispanic applicants while penalizing Asians.

And why wouldn’t they? The last administration refused to enforce the law — and even told schools how to evade it.

In one instance, former President Joe Biden advised universities to give “serious consideration to the adversities that students have overcome,” such as “personal experiences of hardship or discrimination, including racial........

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