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By Kaelan Deese<\/strong><\/p>\n The Biden administration on Tuesday responded to a request by a student group seeking to block race-based admissions practices at the U.S. Military Academy, telling the Supreme Court not to block affirmative action policies at the school.<\/p>\n U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, arguing on behalf of the Justice Department and West Point, told the justices that a \u201cdiverse officer corps is necessary for an effective fighting force,\u201d adding that such diversity requires a \u201climited consideration\u201d of race in selecting cadets at the academy.<\/p>\n \u201cFor more than forty years, our Nation\u2019s military leaders have determined that a diverse Army officer corps is a national-security imperative and that 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,\u201d Prelogar wrote.<\/p>\n The government\u2019s filing is in response to last week\u2019s request from Students For Fair Admissions, or SFFA, the group that sued and succeeded at dismantling affirmative action in college applications last year at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n SFFA, led by conservative legal strategist Edward Blum, asked the justices on Friday to block West Point from considering race in its admissions process, saying that military academies should follow the same standard set by the justices in its 6-3 decision against Harvard University\u2018s race-based practices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n