Washington DC, May 1 -- The administration has initiated an investigation into universities for violating the law by using racial quotas, which the Supreme Court had ruled "illegal", said White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller during his press briefing on Thursday.

Miller, while doubling down on allegations that the Trump administration was violating Supreme Court orders, said that it is, in fact several universities that had violated Supreme Court orders.

"This administration has opened investigations into universities across the country for violating- and we talk a lot about Supreme Court rulings- universities across this country are in plain and direct violation of the Supreme Court's ruling that affirmative action, as in r...