Students for Fair Admissions strikes again, this time suing the U.S. Naval Academy, in addition to West Point, over race-based admissions
Supreme Court: Harvard and UNC Affirmative Action “invalidated under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment”
ur nation’s military culture was built on the principle of “selfless service” as part of an enlightened warrior ethos. Civilians, to become effective warriors, must acquire more than just the knowledge and technical training necessary to become effective warfighters on a lethal and unforgiving battlefield.
I am happy to report that Students for Fair Admissions, the same group that sued Harvard and UNC, has now sued West Point. The lawsuit argues that instead of basing admissions on “objective metrics and leadership potential” the academy’s administrators had instead opted for discriminating on the basis of race. It notes the school’s “benchmarks” for the amount of students in each class that should be made up of “African Americans,” “Hispanics,” and “Asians.”
The U.S. Naval Academy is facing a lawsuit over its race-conscious admissions from the same legal group that successfully brought down these types of policies in the landmark case the U.S. Supreme Court decided this year. That opinion threw out decades of legal precedent enabling colleges to factor race into the admissions process.“Our armed forces know from hard experience that when we do not have a diverse officer corps that is broadly reflective of a diverse fighting force, our strength and cohesion and military readiness suffer,” Prelogar said.
Yet the Academy has strayed from that approach. Instead of admitting midshipmen solely on leadership potential and objective metrics—the Academy stopped requiring applicants to submit standardized scores three years ago—the Academy focuses on race. Interestingly, the same sort of schedule is playing out in the West Point case, and the court in that case has set a hearing date for SFFA’s motion for preliminary injunction for December 21., we expect each case to be immediately appealed, the Naval Academy case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the West Point case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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