The Justice Department said Black or Latino applicants were more likely to be admitted than white or Asian applicants with the same academic credentials. The Justice Department on Thursday accused Duke University’s law school of unlawfully considering race in admissions in the latest Trump administration action against higher education institutions. Advertisement“Duke Law School doesn’t get a free pass to discriminate against white and Asian students simply because it thinks it has good intentions,” said Assistant Atty. The department recently found that the medical schools at UCLA and Yale University illegally considered race in admissions. Further, it said the median law school amissions test scores of rejected white and Asian applicants in 2024 and 2025 exceeded the median scores of admitted Black applicants.