NEW: Trump Admin Moves to Strip DEI-Drenched Schools of Tax Exemptions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The proposed regulations, which the Treasury Department published on Thursday, would add another element to the guidelines schools and other organizations must follow to qualify for tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service.
60% : The Supreme Court agreed in 2023 in a case that directly involved Harvard: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.
60% : The Supreme Court upheld the I.R.S. decision because "racial discrimination in education violates a fundamental public policy.
58% : Rather than recognize that the time for discrimination on the basis of ethnicity had passed, universities dug in their heels, perhaps none more so than Harvard.
58% : "Eliminating racial discrimination," Chief Justice John Roberts added at the time in his ruling, "means eliminating all of it.
52% : It's the very definition of discrimination, and it always has been, even when courts tolerated it as a time-limited curative for previous discrimination.
45% : The rules would deny tax-exempt status to any school, including secondary schools and universities, if it has any policy or program, including admissions and scholarships, that the I.R.S. finds to be racially discriminatory.
45% : Trump officials view such programs as a form of discrimination against white and Asian Americans, and federal civil rights lawyers have opened investigations on those grounds into admissions policies at Harvard, Yale and other schools.
44% : In that case, the I.R.S. revoked the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University, a conservative Christian school, because the school had a policy banning interracial relationships.
44% : Tax exemption is not a right, and entities that act in repudiation of the law are not entitled to remain exempt.
38% : And it matters, especially in an era where the bubble around Academia already appears to be collapsing: While schools may still not owe much in federal income taxes even if they lost their tax-exempt status, the exemption is valuable because it allows donors to deduct donations they make directly to the school, helping fund-raising efforts.
33% : The IRS revoked its tax-exempt status in response, and the Supreme Court set that as an explicit precedent for obstinate refusal to end discriminatory practices: The Trump administration said the tax regulations would draw on a 1983 Supreme Court case that found an organization could not receive tax-exempt status if it was in opposition to a "fundamental public policy."
25% : More than three years after the Supreme Court decision that ended the legal shield for discrimination via "affirmative action," schools now risk paying a steep price for defying the 14th Amendment and the Department of Education: The Trump administration released new rules that could revoke tax-exempt status from any school offering targeted support to Black or other minority students, a sweeping change that opens another front in the president's campaign to reshape American education.

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