DOJ sues Harvard over access to race-based admissions documents

Published February 13, 2026 1:29pm ET



The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Friday against Harvard University, accusing the Ivy League school of unlawfully withholding documents about race-based admissions. 

The DOJ said in a news release that the information is necessary to determine whether Harvard continues to discriminate based on race in its admissions process, even after the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the university did so. 

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