The military has long maintained that the nation's security depends on having a diverse officer corps that is ready to lead an increasingly diverse fighting force.
Students for Fair Admissions filed a lawsuit against West Point alleging that the school is violating the Fifth Amendment by using race-based admissions.
West Point was sued in federal court Tuesday for using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the lawsuit that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions.
Students for Fair Admission, the conservative group that won a Supreme Court ban on affirmative action programs, is suing West Point to eliminate all racial considerations in the academy's admissions.
Military academies are the latest target of Students for Fair Admissions, which aims to abolish affirmative action policies—but the Supreme Court exempted military academies from its ruling abolishing affirmative action at most colleges earlier this year.
The group that won a fight to ban affirmative action in college admissions at the Supreme Court this summer is taking its fight to the next frontier — the U.S. Military Academy.
The conservative advocate who successfully challenged affirmative action in college admissions sued the U.S. Military Academy, arguing that race-conscious admissions policies at the academy violate the Constitution.
The U.S. Military Academy, known as West Point, was sued on Tuesday by an anti-affirmative action group challenging the school's use of race as a factor in student admissions as a violation of the constitutional principle of equal protection.
The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit …
In the suit, Students for Fair Admissions claims West Point has benchmarks in place for how many Black, Hispanic and Asian cadets the institution should admit each class.
Students for Fair Admissions is suing the U.S. Military Academy at West Point over alleged racial composition "goals" after the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling.
Students for Fair Admissions, the group behind the cases that led the Supreme Court to strike down affirmative action in higher education, filed a lawsuit against West Point.
The lawsuit was filed by the same group behind the lawsuit that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions.
Students for Fair Admissions claims the U.S. Military Academy sets benchmarks for how many Black, Hispanic and Asian cadets there should be in each class.
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