The U.S. Supreme Court dealt President Joe Biden’s progressive agenda a severe blow last week by rejecting affirmative action as a basis for college admissions.
Biden, in his typical fashion, opted against seeking a legislative approach to fixing the reverse racism of decades of affirmative action. Rather, he would try to continue it by presidential decree.
“I’m directing the Department of Education to analyze what practices help build a more inclusive and diverse student bodies and what practices hold that back, practices like legacy admissions and other systems that expand privilege instead of opportunity,” Biden told reporters on Thursday.
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“Students from the top 1 percent of family incomes in America are 77 times more likely to get into an elite college than one from the bottom 20 percent of family incomes,” Biden continued. “Today, for too many schools, the only people who benefit from the system are the wealthy and the well-connected. The odds have been stacked against working people for much too long.”
But as the Washington Free Beacon pointed out, Biden’s attack on preventing 1-percenters from getting into elite schools could begin at home.
The Free Beacon reported that in 2018 Joe and Hunter Biden launched a full-court press on University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann in order to get Joe’s granddaughter, Maisy, into the Ivy League school.
“Text messages and emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop, reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, show how Joe and Hunter Biden worked behind the scenes to get a subpar family member into one of the most selective schools in the country,” the Free Beacon reported.
“Maisy Biden was never much of a student. But she had her sights set on the University of Pennsylvania, whose 5.9 percent acceptance rate made it one of the most exclusive schools in the country.”
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In the ensuing months, the Bidens has multiple conversations with Gutmann and deans at Penn about his Maisy’s status. And it paid off.
“The influence campaign worked. Maisy Biden matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2019. President Joe Biden was present in the stands four years later, when Maisy graduated with a bachelor of arts degree,” the Free Beacon reported. Maisy graduated in May.
Before liberals dismiss this as an attack on Biden by a right-wing outlet, a left-wing publication also raised the issue of the family’s privilege, attrobutable to Joe’s long career in politics.
Walter Shapiro of the far left New Republic noted in February 2023 that Maisy Biden “was rejected for early admission to Penn in 2019. That setback prompted [Joe] Biden—then a private citizen about to declare for the presidency—to speak to the dean of admissions at Penn. Probably not coincidentally, Biden’s granddaughter ended up among the 7 percent of applicants eventually admitted to Penn in 2019.”
“In a world of overhyped fake scandals—where everything is the greatest outrage since Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton—this is a nothing-burger,” Shapiro added.
“But still, even after adding all the context in the world, this is not a good look for the president. Perhaps Hunter Biden’s daughter would have gotten into Penn on her merits during the regular admission period, but thanks to Grandpa Joe’s intervention, we will never know. In all likelihood, someone else was denied admission to Penn so there would be a slot for Biden’s granddaughter.”
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