The organization that successfully challenged affirmative action at universities before the U.S. Supreme Court has now filed a lawsuit against the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino and the director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, seeking to block an internship for Latinx individuals.
The American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER) argues that the internship, which is designed to increase the Latinx representation in museum leadership positions, discriminates based on race and ethnicity because in 2022 and 2023 “the museum has never hired an intern who identified as non-Latino.”
A group of Latino organizations and other civil rights groups filed a brief rebutting many of the AAER’s arguments. The same plaintiffs have sued to ban race-oriented philanthropy.
