{"id":151720,"date":"2024-01-08T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151720"},"modified":"2024-01-08T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T12:37:57","slug":"service-academies-affirmative-action-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151720","title":{"rendered":"Service Academy Affirmative Action Lives On"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDiversity!<\/em><\/p>\n

West Point and the Naval Academy can keep affirmative action \u2014 for now<\/h3>\n

By Irene Loewenson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two federal judges recently rejected legal attempts to halt affirmative action in the military\u2019s service academies, at least for now.<\/p>\n

The anti-affirmative-action group Students for Fair Admissions filed lawsuits this fall seeking to end the use of race in admissions at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.<\/p>\n

Students for Fair Admissions asked the two judges assigned to the lawsuits to ban affirmative action in the institutions immediately, before the cases went to trial.<\/p>\n

But the judges put off making a decision on the contentious issue of affirmative action in the service academies, instead opting to let the lawsuits run their course.<\/p>\n

To answer whether the use of race in admissions at West Point was constitutional, Judge Philip Halpern of the Southern District of New York wrote in his opinion Wednesday that he would need to see the \u201cfull factual record,\u201d rather than just the early filings in the case.
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\nStudents for Fair Admissions, the same group that successfully challenged affirmative action in civilian universities at the Supreme Court, argued the service academies\u2019 admissions policies amounted to illegal racial stereotyping.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n

The indoctrinated position is increasing racial diversity in the officer corps prevents internal strife, builds faith in the military among the public and aids recruitment and retention. This is simply accepted as fact and any disagreement is sacrilege. Exactly how diversity accomplishes these intangibles, and to what extent is never defined. Why affirmative action is unconstitutional in civilian universities and not the military academies is baffling and will not stand.<\/p>\n

How’s that recruiting going these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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