The lawsuit seeks to immediately end the scholarship program from the Arkansas Minority Health Commission, which accepts applicants from all racial minorities, excluding White and Arab American students.
, which the judge will examine by mid-May to determine whether he will approve and immediately cease the scholarship's operations. "Do No Harm asked the court for a preliminary injunction to immediately stop the Arkansas Minority Health Commission from making scholarship decisions based on the race requirement that excludes white and Arab students," said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Board Chair of Do No Harm.
The group claims that the scholarship violates the 14th Amendment, which forbids a state from making or enforcing"any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" and depriving"any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The lawsuit specifically aims to address the Equal Protection Clause, claiming that it requires"racial classifications to satisfy strict scrutiny" and that the scholarship’s"gross racial exclusion obviously fails to meet those standards." Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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