Laurie Higgins of Breakthrough Ideas says Northwestern's law school allegedly propagated a mandate to hire as many non-white and non-male candidates as possible. She further reports the then-Dean of the school Daniel Rodriguez urged secrecy to conceal the lawbreaking.
The lawsuit was filed in Chicago federal court in early July by an organization known as Faculty, Alumni and Students opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP).
Among its aims is to restore “meritocracy” in academia, The Cook County Record reported.
FASORP is represented by attorneys from Mitchell Law PLLC and Stone Hilton PLLC, both of Austin, Texas and the America First Legal Foundation of Washington, D.C.
The lawsuit filing claims that Northwestern, in Evanston just north of Chicago, has long followed a nation-wide practice in which “left-wing faculty and administrators have been thumbing their noses at federal anti-discrimination statutes and openly discriminating on account of race and sex when appointing professors.”
Higgins covers culture and education for Breakthrough Ideas.
"The ironies abound, first of all, that they're engaging in discrimination, or what used to be called bigotry, and second, at least at this school, that they were intentionally concealing it,” she says.
When discrimination works for Dems
Higgins says to liberal elites in academia lawbreaking is perfectly justified if it suits their needs.
“Since the left seems to have a policy of 'the ends justify the means' they think the ends, their ends of discrimination, justify the means of concealment. They find nothing problematic about this."
She also reports the lawsuit also includes the Northwestern University Law Review for discriminating against white men in selecting articles, editors and staff members.
A Northwestern spokesperson told The Cook County Record, “Northwestern Pritzker School of Law is among the top law schools in the country, and we are proud of their outstanding faculty. We intend to vigorously defend this case.”
