By Pete Williams
NBC News
February 3, 2021
The Justice Department notified a federal judge Wednesday that it is dropping a high-profile discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that was brought by the Trump administration.
A two-sentence filing in U.S. District Court in Connecticut gave notice of the government’s “voluntary dismissal of this action.”
The case marked an escalation in the Trump Justice Department’s attacks on affirmative action programs that many conservatives consider illegal.