{"id":12392,"date":"2024-08-29T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T00:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12392"},"modified":"2024-08-29T00:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T00:57:05","slug":"will-sues-biden-administration-over-race-based-scholarship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12392","title":{"rendered":"WILL Sues Biden Administration Over Race-based Scholarship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/will-sues-biden-administration-over-race-based-scholarship-program\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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(The Center Square) \u2013 There is another lawsuit over another race-based program from the Biden Administration with a Wisconsin tie.<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging the McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program.<\/p>\n

The McNair Program is a $60 million scholarship program open only to certain minority students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government says that these groups are underrepresented. That may be, but that doesn\u2019t give the government a right to discriminate against our clients and other students on the basis of race. Any attempt to balance the races \u2013 or create equal outcomes \u2013 is a dangerous and illegal policy,\u201d WILL attorney Dan Lennington told The Center Square.<\/p>\n

WILL is representing Young Americans for Freedom, a college-based program that teaches conservative values and thoughts. Its president is former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.<\/p>\n

\u201cDenying a student the chance to compete for a scholarship based on their skin color is not only discriminatory but also demeaning and unconstitutional,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n

WILL\u2019s suit claims Asian students, white students, Arab students, Jewish students and some Latino students are blocked from applying to the McNair program.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents excluded are being taught that their race is a negative, and that their government doesn\u2019t value them as individuals,\u201d Lennington added. \u201cThat\u2019s an offensive and bigoted belief, and it harms the individual dignity of each student. All Americans have a right to be treated equally, and policymakers should never victimize Americans who they believe are \u2018overrepresented.\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

WILL has become one of the leaders in pushing-back against race-based programs at both the state and federal level.<\/p>\n

\u201cRace-based programs, whether called DEI or affirmative action, are pervasive in American society. They won\u2019t go away by themselves — we must root them out one at a time. Our goal is complete racial neutrality, and we won\u2019t stop until America is truly a colorblind society,\u201d Lennington said. \u201cThis is our 12th lawsuit against the Biden-Harris Administration. In our Equality Under the Law Project, which kicked off in 2021, we\u2019ve represented 62 clients from 23 states. We handled 16 lawsuits so far and about two dozen other matters involving race discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of Education said the McNair program is designed to boost the number of low-income and minority students who are looking to get doctoral degrees. The department says students qualify if they are low-income, first-generation college students or are part of a \u201cgroup that is underrepresented in graduate education.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/will-sues-biden-administration-over-race-based-scholarship-program\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 There is another lawsuit over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":6308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12394,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392\/revisions\/12394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}