Affirmative Action Opponents Sue US Air Force Academy

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: US News and World Report/Reuters

Dec. 11, 2024, at 2:08 p.m.


(Reuters) - The group that successfully persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to ban race-conscious admissions at civilian colleges is expanding its fight to end affirmative action at military academies with a new lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Students for Fair Admissions, a group founded by affirmative action opponent Edward Blum, filed the lawsuit against the Air Force Academy late on Tuesday, just days after a judge rejected its challenge to race-conscious admissions at the Annapolis, Maryland-based U.S. Naval Academy.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Colorado, where the Air Force Academy is based, and alleges the school engages in unlawful discrimination and violates the equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment by considering race as an admissions factor. "The Air Force Academy has no legal justification for treating applicants differently by race and ethnicity," Blum said in a statement. The academy, which educates cadets for service as officers in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force, had no immediate comment.

Democratic President Joe Biden's administration has defended the military academies' race-conscious admissions programs, saying senior military leaders have long recognized that a scarcity of minority officers could create distrust within the armed forces, which were desegregated in 1948. Legal experts say the U.S. Department of Justice under Republican President-elect Donald Trump could abandon the defense of these policies after he takes office on Jan. 20.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-12-11/affirmative-action-opponents-sue-us-air-force-academy

[William Seger]

1. Not "could" -- WILL "abandon the defense of these policies"

[BumRushDaShow]

2. When this came up before for West Point

the SCOTUS declined to include the military academies - Supreme Court Allows West Point to Continue Using Race as a Factor in Admissions, for Now

Looks like this group is going to keep trying.

[Jit423]

3. Why is it always the "privileged" thwarting what they deem as Affirmative Action and DEI?

Don't want to compete, maybe? In the real world, lots of minorities and women who are given opportunities out- perform and over perform their privileged counter parts in science and business as some do in sports.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Centuries worth of (generational) conditioning of white supremacy

If someone always had "10" widgets and then someone comes along and says you need to "share" - maybe give up 1 or 2 for someone else, you will have a subset of people who would adamantly refuse.

[The Grand Illuminist]

6. The purpose has always been combat situtations.

There are many women and minorities that want to participate and fight directly inside the combat zones. Business and science is good, but to a military woman or minority, they be flying a desk. They just want to prove themselves worthy to be warriors.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Just another bunch of mediocre white folks

Who are pissed off that their whiteness isn't an instant admission ticket anymore...

Remember when SFA got Asian-American families to do their dirty work by telling them it was unqualified black kids stealing all their slots, and a year after that USSC decision, Asian-American college admissions plummeted? And where did those acceptance letters get mailed to?? You guessed it, mediocre white kids....