Thread by @kegill

Brand new Texas group sues Harvard and NYU Law Reviews this weekend claiming reverse discrimination. Lawyer on case: Trump nominee

Harvard filed Sat. NYU on Sun.

Timing a coincidence? I think not.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Story also @ law.com (paywall)

Complainant : Texas-based ‘Faculty, Alumni and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences’

From @Bloomberg- goal to “restore meritocracy at American universities by eliminating the use of race and sex preferences.”

Frivolous suit: no individuals named as having been harmed

Brand new group: web site created Saturday. Coincidence? Doubtful.

fasorp.org

As is expected, all ownership blocked.

No org or business should be able to use privacy screen.
#opaque #swamp

They seriously need design help. Or maybe they’re showing us what the world looks like when you’ve had TOO MUCH 🍺 BEER

Absolutely nothing on this website to suggest it is a legitimate organization. No officers, 501 papers. Nothing.

The lawyer who filed the cases is Jonathan F. Mitchell, Trump’s nominee to lead the Administrative Conference of the United States @bloomberg reports (15 employees per Wikipedia)
acus.gov

Faculty, Alumni and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences v. Harvard Law Review, 18-cv-12105, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts (Boston)
Filed Saturday Oct 6
pacermonitor.com/public/case/25…

Faculty, Alumni and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences v. New York University Law Review, 18-cv-9184, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan)
Filed Sunday Oct 7
pacermonitor.com/public/case/25…