Overview

• America First Legal Foundation backed its August 6 civil rights complaint with an August 8 letter to DOJ civil rights chief Harmeet Dhillon urging a broader probe under Title VI and Title IX.
• The group contends that Harvard Medical School simply repackaged its DEI office under a new name while retaining the same leadership and mission.
• It charges that holistic admissions prompts and recruitment initiatives act as proxies for race and sex to engineer demographic outcomes.
• The complaint highlights more than $49 million in federal DEI grants, including a $21.9 million award to the Clinical and Translational Science Center, as funding sources for targeted diversity programs.
• AFL requests DOJ to suspend those grants, dismantle rebranded DEI structures, and require Harvard to inventory all minority outreach, residency, and clerkship programs.