In a memo Friday, the Education Department gave an ultimatum to stop using “racial preferences” as a factor in admissions, financial aid, hiring or other areas. Schools are being given 14 days to end any practice that treats students or workers differently because of their race.

The sweeping demand could upend education in myriad ways. The memo targets college admissions offices, ordering an end to personal essays or writing prompts that can be used to predict an applicant’s race. It forbids dorms or graduation events for students of certain races. Efforts to recruit teachers from underrepresented groups could be seen as discrimination.

It’s meant to correct what the memo described as rampant discrimination in education, often against white and Asian students.

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    https://youtu.be/n1KgxqEQn0A

    Thus might highlight the… flaws… of our current system of legislating, executing and adjudicating.

    Congress passes legislation saying here’s what we intend to do without any specifics, executive branch figures out the specifics of how to execute on it, Judiciary might step in if the law itself is no bueno or if the president is operating outside the intended bounds of legislation or outside the constitution.

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      Honestly, after America declared independence from Britain it seems they wanted to move so completely away from the Westminster model that they made their Republic model extraordinarily complicated.