Air Force Academy Hit With Suit Over Race-Based Admit Policy (1)

The US Air Force Academy was hit with a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of its policy to use race as a factor in admissions.

The military academy relies on flawed assumptions to justify using race as a positive criterion, putting White candidates at a disadvantage, the Students for Fair Admissions said in a lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Colorado. The group—which is led by Edward Blum and is behind the US Supreme Court’s landmark opinion outlawing affirmative action in higher education—sued on behalf of a White high school student athlete who would like to ...