I disagree with that. As we can see all the time on CC, affirmative action is a wedge issue, and Trump and Sessions love grandstanding on wedge issues. It is irrelevant (or almost irrelevant) that Asian-Americans could be the major beneficiaries if affirmative action at Ivy League universities is outlawed. The idea that affirmative action should be outlawed appeals to a broad swath of the Trump base . . . and those people don’t actually give a hoot what happens in the Ivy League anyway. They just want to hear that liberals and URMs have been taken down a peg or five and been revealed as racists.
And there are probably plenty of districts on the East and West Coasts where Republicans would love to pick up some Asian-American votes. So sending more Asian kids to Harvard may not be completely irrelevant, either.
They are not going to get a lot of volunteers from career attorneys in the Civil Rights Division to work on this case, but they’ll find someone, somewhere, inside or outside the Justice Department.