The 1964 Civil Rights Act outlaws racial discrimination in hiring. It does not say that racial discrimination is all right in some cases, as long as you think you have a good reason. But that is exactly how many of our colleges and universities have looked at it. They have preferences for people who they say “add diversity,” and if people who happen to have the wrong racial background are excluded, well, that’s part of doing “social justice.”

Finally, schools are getting sued over their discriminatory policies. In today’s Martin Center article, I write about cases involving Cornell and George Mason.

At Cornell, a search for a new faculty member in biology was secretly restricted so that only black applicants would know about it and be considered. Internal emails that were leaked showed that the officials knew they were doing something illegal but thought they could get away with it. But for the whistleblower, they would have.

At George Mason University, its aggressively woke president is also under fire from the federal government for its preferences for “minority” applicants for faculty and administrative positions.

Under Obama and Biden, the government looked the other way, allowing leftist university administrators to ignore the law and pursue their “diversity” policies to the hilt. With Trump, things are completely different. It will be interesting to see if other schools drop their racial preferences and avoid the cost of fighting the government.