Trump Administration Turns Up Pressure on DEI Admissions at UCLA Law

This is the way to defeat systemic DEI racism. Don’t let up, don’t back down, keep up the pressure.

The Trump administration has released another major finding exposing racial discrimination against white and Asian applicants at a top law school. This time the Department of Justice is taking aim at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, which has been accused of continuing a racialized admissions process even after the Supreme Court ruled against it in 2023.

On Thursday, the DOJ announced that, after a lengthy investigation, it found that UCLA Law “discriminated against white and Asian students in granting admission to its 2023, 2024, and 2025 incoming classes.”

The DOJ press release said that UCLA Law’s admissions application included personal statements and essay prompts “designed to elicit information about race.”

According to the administration, UCLA admissions staff instructed students to reveal their race in these sections during race-based recruitment efforts.

These methods, according to the DOJ, were used to get around evaluations that focused on test scores and other race-neutral application metrics.

“The Department’s analysis revealed that UCLA Law rejected white and Asian applicants who had the same LSAT scores as admitted black and Hispanic applicants,” the press release said. “Plainly, lower-scoring white and Asian applicants would have been admitted by UCLA Law if they were black or Hispanic. Further, in 2024 and 2025 (combined), half of the admitted black applicants had LSAT scores that were at or below 90% of the admitted white applicants.”

UCLA School of Law maintained that it had complied with the law.

“Students are admitted through a comprehensive, merit-based review process that considers each applicant’s achievements and experiences,” the school said in a statement. “We are confident in our process.”

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division wrote that UCLA Law School runs a “two-tiered admissions system” that weighs in favor of particular racial groups and discriminates against others.

Dhillon wrote on X that she will “enforce what federal law demands: equal treatment for ALL!”

Great stuff.

If this news sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because the Trump administration issued findings against another top California law school less than a month ago.

The Trump administration isn’t letting go of this issue, and it isn’t just letting the Supreme Court victory stand as a final “mission accomplished.”

Higher education fully intends to implement its DEI agenda now, tomorrow, and forever. Colleges and universities undoubtedly are hoping and counting on opposition to their designs calming down and fading away.

As I’ve noted time and again, it’s clear that leftist ideology and DEI have become so foundational to modern higher education that its institutions will do anything in their power to maintain their current course, regardless of the law.

In the case of California schools, they’ve been struggling to maintain racial quotas in admissions since the state banned them in the 1990s and reaffirmed the ban—by even wider margins—in 2020, at the height of the Great Awokening.

Instead of abiding by the wishes of the people, top California universities only became cleverer in their methods of discrimination. They got away with it for a long time. But the Trump administration is doing what needs to be done: wage a long-term, relentless legal battle against the schools until they comply with federal law, threaten them with defunding if they still refuse, and pull the plug on their racket entirely if they choose to continue resisting.

This presents a very serious dilemma for higher education, especially now as public support has sagged, donors are getting skeptical, and many Americans see academia as a blight rather than a boon to the nation.

Amusingly enough, some of these schools are accusing the Trump administration of “weaponizing” civil rights laws against them. Most seem to have no problem when previous administrations weaponized the Justice Department to enforce a version of civil rights that was pretty much in line with Ibram X. Kendi’s racism in the name of “antiracism.” That was the end goal of DEI.

What they can’t stand is the idea that the American regime may actually uphold a legal standard whereby all are finally equal before the law, where merit, ability, and character count, and skin color is incidental.

And that’s exactly what the Trump administration has remained doggedly committed to, to its credit.

As long as academia keeps up the sordid racial identitarianism, keep hitting them with that legal hammer.

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