The U.S. Department of Justice has joined a lawsuit against the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, alleging that the medical school continues to use race as a criterion in admissions. California’s Proposition 209 made the use of race illegal in admissions to public universities in 1996, and the U.S. Supreme Court followed suit in 2023 with its ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard . The Trump administration has also clamped down on discriminatory “diversity, equity, and