“DOJ says UCLA law school illegally used race in their admissions”, 2 October 2026 (Photo via The Hill — the original report)
As it ran on the front
On September 9, the Department of Justice found that Berkeley Law had illegally used race in admissions, citing essays and other practices as the proxies the Supreme Court's 2023 ruling was supposed to close off. On September 25, the administration canceled $810 million in money Congress had already appropriated, using a pocket rescission, a maneuver the government has used twice in 49 years. The wire's own accounting of that cut listed money for illegal immigrants and what the Post's reporting described as race-focused programs among the targets.
Two law schools, one public system, one finding, repeated almost word for word in the time it takes to renew a parking permit. The office that produced it did not slow down between campuses. It sped up.…
…(cont) The money moved the other direction. The $810 million that Congress had already written into a budget line did not get investigated, litigated, or found in violation of anything. It got rescinded, a procedural move rare enough that the country has used it twice in half a century. By the wire's description, money sitting under the same word, race, that UCLA was just cited for, left the ledger before the ink on that finding was dry.
So here is the ledger, reconciled. On one side, an investigative apparatus that cleared two law schools' worth of admissions files in sixteen days, on top of findings already filed against UCLA's medical school and law schools at Duke and the University of Virginia. The speed is not evenly distributed. Findings against universities arrive fast and travel one direction. Money with race anywhere in its description, by the wire's own account, arrives nowhere and travels the only direction it travels.
This column counts two bias findings opened against universities this month and zero investigations opened into where $810 million was supposed to land before it didn't. That is not a gap in this column. It is a gap in the filing itself, and a gap that size, hon, tends to show up in just one column of the ledger.
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“Two schools get the same homework assignment sixteen days apart, and it's always the one marked "you have too many of the wrong kind of student." Meanwhile the $810 million sitting right there with "race" in its paperwork gets no hearing, no finding, no two-week turnaround, it just gets pocketed. Funny how the speed only runs one way, out of the account and into the press release.”
“Look, these are two separate, unrelated enforcement actions against two separate, unrelated law schools, the timing is a coincidence, and the rescission is a fiscal matter, totally — did I say totally? That's not a word I use. The point is the administration is just applying the law evenly, which is why it found the exact same violation at both of them in sixteen days, which, yeah, I hear it.”
The DOJ disbanded its crypto enforcement team in April 2025 and ordered inconsistent investigations closed - while the president's family runs a crypto business CNBC, 8 April 2025 (Blanche memo)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday accused the law school at the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) of discriminating against white and Asian students in its admissions process. The Trump administration has made similar allegations against the admissions processes at UCLA’s medical school and the law schools at Duke…
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