The SFFA v. Harvard Trojan Horse Admissions Lawsuit

71 Pages Posted: 9 May 2024 Last revised: 17 May 2024

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Kimberly West-Faulcon

Loyola Law School Los Angeles; University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law

Date Written: April 30, 2024

Abstract

Affirmative-action-hostile admissions lawsuits are modern Trojan horses. The SFFA v. Harvard/UNC case—Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, et. al., decided jointly—is the most effective Trojan horse admissions lawsuit to date. Constructed to have the distractingly appealing exterior façade of a lawsuit seeking greater fairness in college admissions, the SFFA v. Harvard/UNC case is best understood as a deception-driven battle tactic used by forces waging a multi-decade war against the major legislative victories of America’s Civil Rights Movement, specifically Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Although the Court’s ruling in SFFA v. Harvard/UNC did not accomplish the legal goal of making race affirmative action categorically unconstitutional, the case conceals and perpetuates a moral falsehood with the ideological power to destroy race-inclusion-focused civil rights laws.

Keywords: SFFA v. Harvard, affirmative action, discrimination, anti-Black racism, college admissions, equal protection, civil rights, Title II, Title VI, Title VII, federal funding, employment discrimination, Bakke, Grutter, Fisher, anti-diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-DEI, white predominance, repression

Suggested Citation

West-Faulcon, Kimberly, The SFFA v. Harvard Trojan Horse Admissions Lawsuit (April 30, 2024). Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper 2024-13, Kimberly West-Faulcon, The SFFA v. Harvard Trojan Horse Admissions Lawsuit, 47 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1355 (2024)., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4820503

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