Harmeet Dhillon

Well, this is one of many things I'm looking at in New York.

Zoran Mamdami has rolled back some executive orders relating to anti-Semitism and other issues.

What's alarming about this is that for years, this person has advocated the Marxist viewpoint that the redistribution of property is appropriate and is explicitly along racial boundaries.

lines, which is clearly illegal in the United States.

And there are several federal statutes that I administer here, including the Fair Housing Act.

There's an Equal Credit Act and there's laws protecting the rights of veterans and our military in housing and so forth.

And so we will have a zero tolerance policy in this administration towards any kind of housing action that in any way discriminates against people on the basis of race or other protected characteristics.

And race includes being a white person in the United States.

That's a great question because, you know, now that we've eliminated our disparate impact framing of how we analyze the law, that actually directly implicates this.

So if someone is super tricky and like they tried to do in San Francisco and say, oh, well, if you're a descendant of a slave, you know, you get to have reparations.

And that's kind of more objective than if you're black per se.

So in this case, you know, I think that these

Statements that have been made are very helpful.

They're helpful evidence of intent.

And the standards are similar in Title VII, employment discrimination, as well as discrimination in housing.

Sorry, in education, people are familiar with students for fair admissions.

Ultimately, we're going to look at whether race is an impermissible criterion.

or national origin.

And you look at patterns and you look at how often decisions have been made that seem to be explicitly based on that.

And you look at the outcomes.