Trump Pick Criticized Affirmative Action in ‘Angry Yellow Men’ (2)

Trump appeals court nominee and first generation South Korean immigrant Kenneth Kiyul Lee wrote extensively in opposition to college affirmative action programs as an undergraduate and an attorney.

Lee, whose nomination was formally sent to the Senate last week, wrote that Asian Americans were “caught between” affirmative action “policies that limit their admission to select colleges and opportunistic conservatives” trying to “woo the Angry Yellow Male vote,” in Angry Yellow Men, a 1996 New Republic piece written while a student at Cornell University.

After law school, the nominee advised Republicans to “appropriate the language and logic of liberals’ most ...