Stephen Miller threatens to sue schools that ignore SCOTUS affirmative action decision

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Former White House adviser Stephen Miller sent a stinging message to top law schools this weekend following the Supreme Court’s decision to ban colleges from using it positive action in their admission decisions.

The Republican gadfly pre-emptively harassed 200 of the country’s law school deans with the threat of legal action if they violate, circumvent, circumvent, undermine or otherwise program “the ruling in Students for Fair Admissions cases against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina”.

In its decision, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges cannot consider race as a factor in admissions based on the 14th Amendment Equal protection clause.

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Miller, who served as top advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021 and is now the president of America First Legal, announced his legal plans in a smug Twitter video on Saturday.

In the video, he told followers, “Today we sent a warning letter to the deans of 200 law schools across America, telling them to obey the Supreme Court ruling to address illegal racial discrimination and affirmative action.”

“If they try to violate, circumvent, circumvent, undermine or otherwise program that ruling, we will take them to court,” Miller continued. “We’re going to hold them accountable.”

Further details about the campaign were not clear. HuffPost has contacted America First Legal asking for more information about its plans.

While this week’s Supreme Court ruling dealt a severe blow to the practice of race-conscious college admissions, the opinion doesn’t prevent college candidates from discussing race openly.

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The statement, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, still allows prospective students to discuss race in relation to their individual life experiences.

Affirmative action policies emerged after the civil rights movement of the 1960s, aimed at increasing educational opportunities for black and Latino students.

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The policy led to accusations of “reverse racism” from white Americans, and in recent years conservatives have argued that affirmative action unfairly disadvantages Asian American students.

Claims of Asian American students were the basis for both cases that led the Supreme Court to declare affirmative action programs in colleges unconstitutional.

Stephen Miller speaks during a televised interview outside the White House on Aug. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Studies show that giving up the practice will have profound effects on the number of black and Latino students admitted to the country’s most selective schools.

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote: “The Court undermines the constitutional guarantee of equal protection by further entrenching racial inequality in education, the bedrock of our democratic government and pluralistic society.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissenting opinion on the case against UNC, writing, “It is no small irony that the verdict passed by the majority today will prevent the end of race-based inequalities in this country, leaving the colorblind world, the majority who wistfully invoke , becomes much more difficult to achieve.”

Miller’s America First Legal group has made a habit of getting involved in conservative conflicts.

In May, the group hinted action against beer giant Anheuser-Busch after its flagship brand Bud Light partnered with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

America First Legal asked shareholders angry at companies “promoting transgender, LGBTQ and PRIDE products” to reach out, signaling possible plans for a class action lawsuit.

2021, AFL has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, accusing them of discriminating against white farmers in her $1.9 billion COVID relief plan.

During the 2022 midterm elections, the group paid for radio commercials to blame President Biden and his administration of widespread discrimination, asking, “When did racism against white people become okay?”