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The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, led by Harmeet K. Dhillon, has put UC Berkeley Law on notice — telling the school there “may be litigation forthcoming” after a federal probe found race played an unlawful role in admissions. This is exactly the kind of enforcement Americans expected when the rule of law was being ignored by elite institutions for years. The DOJ’s public announcement makes clear this is not a rumor or partisan talking point but an official finding by the nation’s civil-rights enforcer.
According to the department’s findings, Berkeley Law used essay prompts and application questions about racial identity as a backdoor to favor certain applicants, affecting the incoming classes of 2024 and 2025 — a brazen effort to circumvent existing law. That conduct, the DOJ wrote in a formal findings letter, amounted to discrimination on the basis of race and violated long-standing protections that flow from the Supreme Court’s recent rulings. The mainstream coverage of the report confirms what conservatives have warned for years: when universities are left unaccountable, they will manufacture excuses to prioritize demographics over merit.
Assistant Attorney General Dhillon rightly condemned Berkeley Law’s “deliberate efforts to circumvent” the Supreme Court’s decisions, framing the school’s behavior as a refusal to respect the law. After the high court’s 2023 ruling restricting race-based admissions, any institution gaming application prompts to achieve racial outcomes is playing fast and loose with equal protection principles. This is not about politics; it’s about enforcing the Constitution and preventing a return to the old system of group preferences that harm both fairness and academic standards.
This action is part of a broader, necessary effort to push back on campus DEI schemes that have crept from ideology into institutional practice, creating barriers for hardworking Americans who are judged by their record, not their skin tone. The DOJ’s investigations across top medical and law schools show this is not an isolated incident but a cultural problem in higher education that rewards identity politics over individual achievement. Conservatives should not apologize for demanding admissions be based on merit and character, not on engineered racial outcomes.
Americans deserve universities that teach truth, reward excellence, and uphold the rule of law — not social-engineering departments that tell our children who they must be before they even set foot in a lecture hall. If Berkeley or any other elite program thinks it can flout the law with clever prompts and coded practices, let the litigation come and expose the woke system for what it is: a deliberate choice to put ideology ahead of equal treatment. Patriotism means defending fairness and opportunity for every individual, and that is exactly what this DOJ action should accomplish.
