{"id":2004497,"date":"2023-08-18T04:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/group-behind-harvard-affirmative-action-case-targets-military-academy-admissions-next\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T04:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:12:48","slug":"group-behind-harvard-affirmative-action-case-targets-military-academy-admissions-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/group-behind-harvard-affirmative-action-case-targets-military-academy-admissions-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Group behind Harvard affirmative action case now targets military academy admissions."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fgroup-behind-harvard-affirmative-action-case-targets-military-academy-admissions-next%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=2004497&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 Fight for \u2064Fair Admissions: Taking on\u2063 the Military Academies<\/h2>\n<p>The group\u2064 that achieved a groundbreaking victory\u200b at the\u200c Supreme Court, striking down\u200d the\u2062 consideration of \u200drace in college admissions, \u2062is now setting its sights on the U.S. military academies.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off their\u2064 landmark win against Harvard and the University of \u2064North Carolina,\u200b Students for Fair Admissions has launched a captivating new website, calling on high school \u200bgraduates who were denied admission to the United States Military Academy \u200bat West\u2064 Point, the Naval \u200cAcademy, or the Air Force Academy\u200d to join \u2063their cause.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging the Status Quo<\/h3>\n<p>Edward Blum, \u2063the\u200d president of Students for\u2064 Fair Admissions, explained in an interview with \u200cthe Washington \u200bExaminer that while the court&#8217;s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard addressed race in\u2063 college admissions, it did\u2064 not specifically\u2064 address the military academies. Blum emphasized that the court&#8217;s brief footnote should not be seen\u200b as an \u2062endorsement of <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 this\u200b context.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Footnote number four in\u200c the majority opinion, I see\u200b that as a statement of agnosticism, \u200bmore than a\u2063 kind of an exemption or carve\u2063 out,&#8221; Blum said. &#8220;I think everyone recognizes that the service\u200c academies in the world of higher education are\u2062 unique. But the \u2064court just said, &#8216;It&#8217;s\u2063 not before us, hasn&#8217;t been briefed, we&#8217;re not going to touch it.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The footnote, part of Chief Justice Roberts&#8217;s majority\u2062 opinion, reads, &#8220;No\u200d military academy is a \u2063party to these cases &#8230; and none of the courts below addressed 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\u2062 context. This opinion also does not address the \u200cissue, in light of the <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.\">potentially distinct interests<\/a> that military academies may \u200dpresent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Elite Military Academies<\/h3>\n<p>The military \u200cacademies, including West Point for\u200d the U.S. Army, the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, are\u200b renowned for \u2064their \u200bselectivity. These institutions, \u200boperated by\u200b the Department of Defense, offer\u200c tuition-free\u200d education in\u2063 exchange for a minimum four-year military service \u2062commitment. Graduates of the academies are\u2064 commissioned as officers in their respective \u200dbranches.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration, in an amicus brief filed before\u200b the court, argued that the\u200b military academies \u2063relied on prior court precedent in Grutter v. Bollinger,\u200c which allowed the consideration of race to \u2062ensure \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/group-behind-harvard-affirmative-action-case-targets-military-academy-admissions-next\/\" title=\"Group behind Harvard affirmative action case now targets military academy admissions.\">diverse officer corps\u2062 capable<\/a> of leading an increasingly diverse \u2064fighting force.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Supreme Court&#8217;s agnostic\u200b stance on\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/byu-rooting-out-racism-task-force-calls-for-race-conscious-religious-curriculum-admissions-standards\/\" title=\"BYU \u2018Rooting Out Racism\u2019 Task Force Calls For \u2018Race-Conscious\u2019 Religious Curriculum, Admissions Standards\">race-conscious admissions<\/a> at \u2063the military academies, Blum hopes \u200bthat they \u2064will voluntarily comply with the court&#8217;s ruling and refrain from using race as a factor in their admissions decisions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Students for\u2062 Fair Admissions hopes that there will be some clarification from the service academies, in which they will state that they will comport \u2063with the Supreme \u200cCourt&#8217;s opinion in\u2063 Harvard and\u2063 UNC &#8230; and \u200cnot\u2062 use race as a factor in their admissions \u2063process,&#8221; Blum told \u200cthe\u2063 Washington\u200c Examiner. &#8220;We hope that we don&#8217;t have to\u200d sue them. However, if that statement is not forthcoming, then Students for \u200dFair Admissions \u2064is likely to bring\u2062 a challenge to\u2062 the service academies&#8217; continued use of race and\u2063 ethnicity.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blum invites anyone who has been denied admission to one of the academies to join Students \u2064for Fair Admissions. He acknowledges that \u200cunder the Biden administration, the likelihood of the service academies changing their admissions practices is slim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached out to the White House \u200cand Pentagon for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students for Fair Admissions, victorious in a Supreme Court case against race-based college admissions, now aims to extend their triumph to U.S. military academies. 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