The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request to block the race-based admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request to block the race-based admissions policy at an elite public high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, simply saying, “the application to vacate the stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied.”that Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch would have granted the application to vacate the stay.
“The undisputed evidence demonstrates precisely how the Board’s actions caused, and will continue to cause, a substantial racial impact,” U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton wrote in his decision. “The Board instituted a system that does not treat all applicants to TJ [Thomas Jefferson High School] equally.”
Upon handing down this order, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on behalf of the “Coalition for TJ” — the group of parents, students, and alumni that initially filed suit against the school. Miyares said in an April statement:
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