The Justice Department has opened ... to challenge affirmative action policies – a longtime hot-button issue for conservatives who claim that such admissions policies focus more on race than ...

WASHINGTON - The US Department of Justice on March ... that struck down race-conscious admissions. The 2023 ruling effectively prohibited affirmative action policies that were long used to raise ...

The probe extends to three campuses within ... Stanford has faced federal scrutiny over its admissions policies before. In the 1990s, the DOJ conducted similar reviews to ensure compliance with ...