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Biden Justice Department Scraps Investigation Into Yale’s Discriminatory Admissions Process

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Chrissy Clark
Biden Justice Department Scraps Investigation Into Yale’s Discriminatory Admissions Process
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The Biden Justice Department dropped an investigation into Yale University, despite the previous Justice Department concluding that the university discriminated against applicants on the basis of race.

The Justice Department announced Wednesday in a filing for a federal district court in Connecticut that it is dropping a Trump-era investigation into Yale for alleged racial discrimination in its admissions process. A judge is still required to sign off on the decision to dismiss the two-year probe. 

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