Clarence Thomas

For decades, we have relied on Supreme Court decisions like Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed systemic discrimination in public schools, and the 1966 decision to ban poll taxes in state elections to keep our country’s moral arc bending towards justice, as Martin Luther King Jr. famously said.

Supreme Court justices are expected to decide on a Harvard admissions lawsuit soon. The justices would do well to take a pass on the lawsuit, which relies on flawed statistical data to suggest Harvard is discriminating against Asian American applicants.