The Wall Street Journal: How schools flout the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling

Before the Supreme Court even announced its ruling against race-based admissions at Harvard and UNC, schools were already planning ways to get around the decision. Columnist Bill McGurn quotes a Harvard law professor who said schools would just have to be “more subtle” when using race.

“Enter Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology,” McGurn writes. The Virginia school—which was previously ranked #1 in the nation but recently fell to fifth place—has pioneered the use of racial proxies in admissions. PLF is asking the Supreme Court to hear the Coalition for TJ’s lawsuit over the school’s admissions policy. As Erin Wilcox tells the Journal, “If the court doesn’t nip this in the bud now, then schools will just use proxies to undercut the Harvard/UNC decision and keep right on discriminating."

Reason Magazine: Race discrimination lawsuit against Seattle can go forward, says federal court

A federal court ruled that Joshua Diemert, a former employee of the City of Seattle, has a plausible claim against Seattle for disparate treatment based on race.

Seattle had filed a motion to dismiss Joshua’s lawsuit, arguing that the city’s Race and Social Justice Initiative couldn’t be said to create a racially hostile workplace because the program aims to educate city workers about “historical atrocities, systemic bias, and white privilege.” But in a victory for Joshua, the district court said his lawsuit can move forward.

Associated Press: After Supreme Court curtails federal power, Biden administration changes clean water rules

The Biden administration said it had no choice after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sackett v. EPA: It announced this week that it was rolling back federal regulations over millions of acres of land that was previously designated as wetlands but had no connection to bodies of water.

“Kudos to the agencies,” Damien Schiff, the PLF attorney who argued Sackett, told AP. The rule change makes clear the wide-scale impact of Sackett, a case PLF litigated for 15 years before winning in May.

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