Courts Let Military Academies Keep Race-Based Admissions Policies in Place for Now

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis can continue to use race-based “affirmative action” policies in their admissions, as challenges to such admissions policies wind their way through the federal court system. Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a nonprofit legal advocacy group opposed to the use of racial considerations in college admissions, had sought to overturn the use of such race-based admissions policies at the West Point and Annapolis service academies. SFFA had sought preliminary injunctions that would have forced the two service academies to halt any affirmative action-based admissions decisions as the case proceeds...