Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax that the Supreme Court was inconsistent and hypocritical on its recent run-in with the lawyer of a student group suing over affirmative action.
During a Monday appearance on "The Record with Greta Van Susteren," the legal expert took issue with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson questioning whether Students for Fair Admissions had a basis to pursue its lawsuit against the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
The group has alleged UNC racially discriminated in its admissions process but was met with hostility from Jackson, who appeared to claim Monday the college is "looking at the full person," not just race.
"What we heard in the Supreme Court today was an incredible amount of inconsistency and hypocrisy," said Dershowitz, when discussing both the UNC case and a separate Harvard University case, regarding affirmative action, being argued on Monday.
"If race is taken into account, you have the following situation: The son or daughter of a hedge fund person worth $1 billion ... gets slightly lower grades than a kid from Appalachia ... if you can take race into account, then the rich Black kid gets an advantage over the poor white kid," Dershowitz explained.
According to the Harvard Law professor emeritus, racial "factors are irrelevant to academic institutions and shouldn’t be allowed to be taken into account."
Dershowitz added: "If you want true diversity, start admitting evangelical Christians, people who support guns."
"I don’t believe that these universities are interested in intellectual, academic diversity,” Dershowitz stated. "They're interested only in having a photograph that shows a significant number of people — it’s a quota system."
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