The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that it found Duke University “intentionally discriminated based on race in granting and denying admission” to its law school over three admissions cycles. It’s the first law school that the department has found to have violated the Supreme Court’s 2023 ban on considering race in college admissions decisions. Up to this point, the DOJ has focused its efforts on proving medical schools discriminated against white and Asian students in their admissions processes, opening investigations into at least 26 schools and announcing findings of discrimination in four. The DOJ argues that the median score for Black admitted students was lower than the median score for Asian and white students who were rejected from Duke Law. The letter is similar to those the DOJ sent to medical schools that the department found had discriminated against white and Asian applicants.