Preparations Made to Appeal Judge’s Ruling Approving Harvard’s Discriminatory Admissions Policies

Pedestrians walk past a Harvard University building in Cambridge, Mass., on Aug. 30, 2018. Scott Eisen/Getty Images

A conservative civil rights group plans to lend its expertise to the legal fight to overturn a federal judge’s ruling that Harvard University’s policy of discriminating against Asian Americans in favor of whites in the undergraduate admissions process is legally sound.

The ruling in question came Sept. 30 from Boston-based U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, in a case cited as Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.