{"id":1960966,"date":"2023-06-29T20:37:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T00:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carveout-for-race-based-admissions-allowed-for-military-academies\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T20:38:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T00:38:42","slug":"carveout-for-race-based-admissions-allowed-for-military-academies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carveout-for-race-based-admissions-allowed-for-military-academies\/","title":{"rendered":"Race-based admissions carveout permitted for military academies."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcarveout-for-race-based-admissions-allowed-for-military-academies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1960966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Supreme Court Excludes Military Academies from Landmark Ruling on Race-Based Admissions<\/h2>\n<p>In a groundbreaking decision, the Supreme Court has struck down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-justice-department-drops-discrimination-lawsuit-against-yale\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Justice Department Drops Discrimination Lawsuit Against Yale\">race-based admissions<\/a> in university admissions, ruling that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina&#8217;s use of racial preferences violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. However, the court did not address the issue of racial preference in military academies&#8217; admissions decisions, leaving their existing policies untouched for now.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts explained in a footnote to the majority opinion that no military academy was involved in the cases considered, and therefore, the court did not address the propriety of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-exempts-military-academies-in-affirmative-action-ruling\/\" title=\"Supreme Court exempts military academies from affirmative action ruling.\">race-based admissions systems<\/a> in that context. He acknowledged the potentially distinct interests that military academies may present.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, criticizing the exemption for military academies as arbitrary. She argued that if the court did not exempt religious schools who were not direct parties to the ruling, it should not exempt military academies either. Sotomayor emphasized that national security interests are also implicated at civilian universities hosting Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs.<\/p>\n<p>Experts believe that the case is not fully settled yet. While the court did not address the question of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-supreme-court-hears-challenge-against-race-based-college-admissions-joe-biden-wants-race-based-supreme-court-nominee\/\" title=\"As Supreme Court Hears Challenge Against Race-Based College Admissions, Joe Biden Wants Race-Based Supreme Court Nominee\">race-based admissions policies<\/a> in service academies, it left the possibility open for future consideration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">However, I\u2019m extremely disappointed military academies have been exempted.<\/p>\n<p>These institutions should be MERIT-BASED to ensure we get the best and brightest officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelgwaltz\/status\/1674432434224631819?\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAccording to Mike Berry, general counsel for First Liberty Institute and a former Army attorney, the question of whether service academies can use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carveout-for-race-based-admissions-allowed-for-military-academies\/\" title=\"Race-based admissions carveout permitted for military academies.\">race-based admissions policies remains unanswered<\/a>. As no service academies were parties to the litigation, the court left this issue for another day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/carveout-race-based-admissions-allowed-military-academies\/\">Carveout for Race-Based Admissions Allowed for Military Academies<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s recent ruling excluded military academies from its landmark decision, which declared race-based admissions in universities unconstitutional. The existing policies of military academies remain unaffected for now. In a 6-3 vote, the court determined that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina&#8217;s use of racial preferences in admissions violated the Equal Protection Clause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":899,"featured_media":1960967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}