{"id":143615,"date":"2023-06-30T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=143615"},"modified":"2023-06-30T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:35:22","slug":"the-u-s-supreme-court-strikes-down-university-affirmative-action-exempting-the-service-academies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=143615","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down university affirmative action, exempting the service academies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Willy<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that university affirmative action violated the 14th Amendment. This amendment addresses equal protection. Chief Justice Roberts wrote that getting rid of racial discrimination means getting rid of all of it. However, he exempted the service academies from this decision.<\/p>\n

From the Military Times:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In August 2022, 35 former top military leaders — including four former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among them retired Marine Gen. General Joseph Dunford and retired Navy Adm. Michael Mullen, and eight former service academy superintendents — filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that affirmative action was necessary for national security.<\/p>\n

The retired leaders emphasized that the officer corps already is significantly less racially diverse than the enlisted troops. Increasing that gap, they warned, could diminish the military’s legitimacy in the eyes of some Americans, hinder engagement with foreign countries and threaten internal morale.<\/p>\n

Many veterans have dismissed claims that affirmative action is necessary for national security.<\/p>\n

A group of more than 600 veterans – among them 21 Medal of Honor recipients and some former leaders of service academies – in May 2022 filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the Supreme Court to ban the practice.<\/p>\n

Far from boosting morale, this group maintained, affirmative action “can only foster a culture of arbitrary advancement, disunity, and frustration.”<\/p>\n

The retirees in favor of affirmative action argued that, as a matter of military diversity, affirmative action isn’t important just at service academies. They maintained it was also important at civilian colleges and universities, where the majority of new officers receive their degrees, and where many receive commissions through ROTC programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice that the veterans in favor of affirmative action in the service academies were heavy on the rear echelon backgrounds. However, the veterans wanting to end affirmative action in the service academies were heavy with the front line backgrounds.<\/p>\n

The Military Times has the rest of the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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