America First Legal (AFL) is suing Northwestern University and the Northwestern University Law Review for allegedly discriminating against white males.
Northwestern University: Discrimination[ed] “There was discrimination in the hiring of white male teaching candidates at the university's law faculty,” the AFL alleged, and there was discrimination against white male teaching candidates at the university's law faculty. press release Assert. The AFL, co-counsel Jonathan F. Mitchell and the Stone Hilton law firm announced the lawsuit today.
“Candidates with favorable identities are given a significant advantage and selected over white men with much better publication records and far more impressive educational and professional qualifications,” it said. Litigation Assert.
/1🚨Racism in academia🚨
We filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and the Northwestern Law Review for discriminating against white men for the following reasons:
‼️Teacher recruitment
‼️Selection of articles, editors, and law review membersThe details are as follows. pic.twitter.com/5YvIzk05So
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) July 2, 2024
The document further alleges that for “at least the past 12 years” Northwestern Law School, under then-Dean Daniel Rodriguez, “promoted and enforced a mandate” to hire faculty candidates with “preferable status.” The lawsuit further alleges that “Rodriguez knew that the discriminatory hiring orders were illegal and would expose the university to litigation.”
Dean Rodriguez knew that his discriminatory hiring orders were illegal and would expose the university to lawsuits, so he ordered Northwestern faculty never to discuss job candidates on the faculty listserver, explicitly threatening them with litigation. pic.twitter.com/9HZAQ2s4Bs
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) July 2, 2024
The lawsuit also alleges that student editors at the Northwestern University Law Review violated U.S. law by discriminating on the basis of sex and race. They gave preferential treatment to racial and sexual minorities and “[ed] “Much better article” posted by a white man (Related article: College donors feel 'betrayed': Scholarships should no longer be awarded based on race)
The AFL pointed to the Law Review's “diversity and inclusion” initiative. statement In litigationThe publication states that it does not discriminate on the basis of “race,” “sexual orientation, gender orientation or identity,” etc.
The AFL argues in its lawsuit that this statement is “false” because the Law Review employs “affirmative action practices to select its members, editors and articles.”
According to a press release, AFL Secretary General Gene Hamilton noted that discrimination on the basis of race or sex is prohibited by federal law.
“No one should be treated better and no one should be treated worse off because of immutable characteristics,” he said, according to the press release. Hamilton elaborated further, emphasizing the need for decisions to be made on merit.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court Against In two lawsuits against the University of North Carolina and Harvard University, the judges found that race-based admissions practices unfairly disadvantaged students. Since the rulings, the Biden administration has continued to promote diversity in higher education. In response to the Supreme Court's rulings, the Department of Education released a report advising higher education institutions on how to increase “diversity.”
The AFL also announced in a separate press release that it was suing CBS for firing the anchor because he was “white, heterosexual and older.” ManIn the lawsuit, discrimination against men and whites Civil Rights Act.
