"The Justice Department asserted that evidence in a federal lawsuit suggests the Ivy League school engages in "racial balancing" when it selects a class, a potential violation of boundaries the Supreme Court has set on affirmative action in college admissions. With a legal brief filed in federal court in Boston, the department weighed in on a closely watched lawsuit challenging Harvard's use of race and ethnicity in admissions. The suit alleges that Harvard is biased against Asian Americans, and the department's brief showed that the Trump administration is sympathetic to that argument."