Johns Hopkins Medical School is facing a civil rights complaint for allegedly continuing to use diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) tactics despite President Donald Trump’s executive order banning its use.
America First Legal (AFL) filed the complaint with the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday, alleging the school is engaging in “systemic, intentional, and ongoing discrimination” by using race as a factor in admissions and hiring and hosting programs that only allow people of a certain race, gender or sexuality.
“This is about restoring equal treatment under the law. Johns Hopkins has received billions in taxpayer dollars, but it is actively segregating opportunities based on race and sex,” Megan Redshaw, counsel at AFL, said in a statement. “That is not just wrong—it’s unconstitutional.”
Johns Hopkins Medical School did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Dr. Julie Brahmer (R) and Katie Thornton review PET scans of a patient being treated at the Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins August 15, 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
AFL alleges the medical school is engaging in a “calculated effort to evade the Supreme Court’s ruling” that banned the use of affirmative action policies in 2023, a decision that many other schools have been accused of sidestepping to achieve a desired racial makeup in their student body. The complaint alleges Johns Hopkins “pre-filters applicants to achieve predetermined demographic outcomes” by targeting certain groups through “race-based outreach and pathway programs.” (RELATED: Group That Pushed SCOTUS To End Affirmative Action ‘Gravely Concerned’ Elite Colleges Aren’t Complying With Ruling)
“The use of DEI-based discrimination in medical education isn’t just illegal, it’s especially indefensible,” the complaint reads. “No sector demands greater adherence to merit and objectivity than medicine, where decisions made by physicians can mean the difference between life and death.”
The letter to the DOJ also points to Johns Hopkins’ website, which doesn’t hide its support for DEI. Its medical school seemingly still maintains a DEI office, which details its mission as being “to recruit, promote, retain, and engage those underrepresented in medicine, science, nursing, and healthcare administration so that we can achieve health equity.”
The medical school also allegedly hosts scholarships that “explicitly or implicitly condition eligibility to favor certain demographic groups,” using socioeconomic status to assume the race of applicants and providing scholarships that specifically serve non-U.S. citizens or “minority” students.
Even the school’s residency program is accused of using discriminatory DEI practices, holding leadership positions for DEI and “LGBTQ+ Equity and Education” chairs who are allegedly meant to help recruit members of certain racial, gender and sexuality groups.
The Trump administration is seeking to dismantle discriminatory DEI programs, with President Donald Trump signing several executive orders banning their use in federally funded programs and restoring the purpose of the Civil Rights Act. The Department of Education under Trump has mirrored these priorities, notifying schools in February that discrimination based on race was illegal and would not be tolerated.
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