The conservative legal activist who led the fight to convince the Supreme Court to end affirmative action in college admissions has now trained his sights on high-profile law firms and their diversity hiring programs.
Edward Blum, who leads the American Alliance for Equal Rights, filed two lawsuits on Tuesday — one in the Southern District of Florida against Morrison & Foerster LLP and another in the Northern District of Texas against Perkins Coie LLP.
The Florida legal battle goes on to argue the firm’s Keith Wetmore 1L Fellowship for Excellence, Diversity and Inclusion excludes certain applicants based on race. The positions, according to the filing, pay six-figure stipends. “[SFFA v. Harvard] reaffirms that ‘[e]liminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.’ No racial discrimination is benign: It always ‘demeans the dignity and worth’ of every American ‘to be judged’ by his or her race ‘instead of by his or her own merit and essential qualities,’” the lawsuits read.
The court said schools can no longer defend policies that claim to try to find the right racial mix of students for an incoming class. Such policies reduce students to the color of their skin, the justices said in a 6-3 ruling striking down affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.
“In the interim, there will be a lot of discovery that reveals how these firms expressly use race when hiring,” he said.
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