Harvard Case Judge Is Obama Appointee Who Oversaw Race Bias Suit

 Next Democrat elected President will likely place her on the Supreme Court.

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Federal Judge Upholds Harvard’s Race-Based Admission Criteria  

. . ."The case has been set for oral arguments on July 21 before US District Court Judge Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee, who previously ruled in favor of Harvard’s racially motivated admissions policies. Judge Burroughs’ decision was subsequently overruled by the Supreme Court." . . .

Harvard Case Judge Is Obama Appointee Who Oversaw Race Bias Suit   "The judge overseeing Harvard University’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over threats to slash funding has a track record of ruling in favor of the Ivy League school.

"That background makes US District Judge Allison Burroughs a prime candidate to join other members of the judiciary who have drawn Donald Trump’s ire after she was assigned to the lawsuit Monday. She was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama in 2014 after a career as a federal prosecutor and private lawyer." . . .

Support Grows for Asian-American Students in Discrimination Lawsuit Against Harvard   . .  ." 'We strongly believe Harvard’s admissions policy, which is hyper-focused on race, is only a Band-Aid that conceals the root cause behind a lack of diversity on college campuses,” he said.

"Wu said statistical evidence presented at a three-week trial in October before U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs shows that Harvard discriminates against Asian-Americans in rural areas." . . .

Back in 2019: Federal Judge Upholds Harvard’s Race-Based Admission Criteria   . . ."Burroughs acknowledged that Asian American applicants “would likely be admitted at a higher rate than white applicants if admissions decisions were made based solely on academic and extracurricular ratings.”

"Parts of the opinion seem inconclusive and speculative. For example, on the personal ratings, Burroughs states

“The disparity in personal ratings suggests that at least some admissions officers might have subconsciously provided tips in the personal rating, particularly to African American and Hispanic applicants to create an alignment between the profile ratings and the race-conscious overall ratings that they were assigning. It also possible, although unsupported by any direct evidence before the court, that part of the statistical disparity resulted from admissions officers’ implicit biases that disadvantaged Asian American applicants in the personal rating relative to white applicants, but advantaged Asian American over whites in the academic rating.”

"That seems like a judicial shrug on a critical allegation of discrimination." . . .