As anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last 18 months knows, the Supreme Court declared racial preferences in college admissions unconstitutional in SFFA v. Harvard and UNC in June 2023. Yet last month, a district court judge upheld discriminatory racial preferences in military school admissions based on similarly specious arguments.
In the well-known Harvard case, the court found that the alleged educational benefits of a racially diverse student body, Harvard and UNC’s justification for using racial preferences, could not justify racial discrimination in admissions. Those “benefits,” the court held, were unmeasurable and too vague to survive strict scrutiny.
Biden Admin Urged the Court to Permit Racial Preferences
What may be less well known about that 2023 case is that the United States, represented by Biden Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, filed an amicus brief and participated…
