The Supreme Court on Monday called on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to weigh in on whether to take up a discrimination case brought against Harvard University over the Ivy League school’s “race-conscious” admissions policy. In an unsigned order, the Supreme Court requested the acting solicitor general, Elizabeth Prelogar, “to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.” The dispute was first raised in 2014 by advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), on behalf of a coalition of students who claimed to have been rejected from Harvard because of their Asian ancestry—a violation of Title VI, the federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding. The DOJ under the Trump administration backed the suing students. It also waged a separate lawsuit against Yale University over alleged discrimination against white and Asian-American applicants in its admissions process, but dropped the …