Four former clerks to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas have joined to challenge Harvard’s admission policy as racially discriminatory.

Adam Mortara and John Hughes, both partners at Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, joined William Consovoy and Patrick Strawbridge, partners at Consovoy McCarthy Park, according to the National Law Journal. The case is set to begin Oct. 15. All formerly clerked for Thomas, a known opponent of affirmative action, which is he has compared to Jim Crow segregation laws.

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