Posted on 01/31/2024 3:24:32 PM PST by george76
Student group requested high court block race-based admissions at the academy amid ongoing legal battle..
West Point defended using race in its admissions process in response to a student group's request that the Supreme Court force the military academy to pause the practice while a lawsuit makes its way through lower courts.
"For more than forty years, our Nation’s military leaders have determined that a diverse Army officer corps is a national-security imperative," U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in a Tuesday court filing. "Achieving that diversity requires limited consideration of race in selecting those who join the Army as cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point."
In June, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) in its lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, finding that considering race during the college admissions process violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause. But the landmark ruling that effectively ended affirmative action did not apply to the nation's military academies.
SFFA filed lawsuits against West Point and the Naval Academy in September seeking to eliminate the exception, arguing the same Fifth Amendment protections also apply to military academies.
In an emergency application for an injunction pending appeal filed last week, SFFA argues West Point is not "exempt" from the Harvard ruling. The application claims two White West Point applicants the group is representing will suffer "irreparable harm" if an injunction is not granted because the academy will "illegally discriminate against thousands of applicants for the class of 2028—including two of 26 SFFA’s members—based on their skin color."
"Should these young Americans bear the burden of West Point’s unchecked racial discrimination?
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West Point defends racism based on race. Quotas > Affirmative Action > DEI > RACISM....all the same thing. Dots or spots - a leopard is still a leopard.
Volunteer to serve under dementia Joe?
Oh hell no.
Pure racism by our military academies. No wonder our military is in a shithole.
“diverse Army officer corps is a national-security imperative”
That means that black people are so stupid and incompetent that it is totally impossible to find any properly qualified to admit to West Point.
That is what racism looks like, folks.
Diversity results in segregation. Diversity is destroying the once great American cities.
Diversity=Balkanization
Not just the lack of room for the women’s hips and thighs, but apparently they simply used male pants, and you can see the “ballroom” pouch in the crotch instead of a higher and tighter crotch fit for the lady cadets. I guess that’s the Army for ya. Standard issue.
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