US EditionJustice Dept. declines to defend grants for Hispanic-serving colleges, calling them unconstitutional
The Justice Department, citing a 2023 Supreme Court ruling, agrees the grant program favors race or ethnicity and will not defend it in court, affecting over 500 institutions.
- Solicitor General John Sauer notified Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on July 25 that the U.S. Justice Department has decided not to defend the Hispanic-Serving Institution grant program.
- The State of Tennessee and an anti-affirmative action group sued the U.S. Education Department in June, and the Justice Department told Congress it agrees with the legal challenge.
- Justice Department officials said the Hispanic-Serving Institution grant program confers an unconstitutional advantage based on race or ethnicity.
- Congress appropriated about $350 million for the program in 2024, and the suit says affected schools lose tens of millions, while more than 500 colleges designated Hispanic-Serving Institutions compete for grants.
- The program, created by Congress in 1998, targets colleges with at least a quarter undergraduate Hispanic share to address Latino students' lower college and graduation rates.
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Trump DOJ won't defend major Hispanic college grant program, calling it unconstitutional
The Trump administration's Justice Department has declared it believes a decades-old Hispanic college grant program is unconstitutional and will not defend it from a legal challenge brought by the state of Tennessee.According to The Associated Press, the DOJ announced its intentions not to defend th...
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Justice Dept. declines to defend grants for Hispanic-serving colleges, calling them unconstitutional
The Trump administration says it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional.
The U.S. government said Friday that it will not defend a decades-old program that pays grants to universities with a large number of Hispanic students, which is being challenged in court, and said it believes that such funding is unconstitutional.
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