AN INTERVENOR IN THE DOJ’S SUIT AGAINST YALE!https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/an-intervenor-in-the-dojs-suit-against-yale.phpStudents for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) has filed a motion to intervene in the Department of Justice’s suit against Yale. The DOJ’s suit alleges discrimination by Yale against Whites and Asians/Asian Americans in undergraduate admissions. You can read SFFA’s motion and proposed complaint here.
If SFFA is permitted to intervene — and I can think of no reason why it won’t be — this will mean the case can go forward even if Joe Biden is elected president and his administration decides to drop the case against Yale (as it surely would). Hence the exclamation point in the title of this post.
SFFA is the organization that sued Harvard for discrimination. Harvard won in the district court. The case has been argued in the Second Circuit and is awaiting decision. However, one of the three judges who heard the case, Juan Torruella, died yesterday.
SFFA is represented in the Yale case by the same law firm that represents it in the Harvard litigation — Consovoy McCarthy. One couldn’t ask for more experienced lawyers in a case like this.
I highlighted the reason this is significant. If SFFA is allowed to "intervene", Biden could not kill this lawsuit by dropping it the way Obama dropped the prosecution of the New Black Panther Party thugs. Or the way AG Jerry Brown killed CA's Prop 8, by declining to defend it.
