The US Naval Academy won’t be barred from considering race as a factor in its admissions process amid an advocacy group’s legal challenge, a federal judge said in an order docketed Friday.
Anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions, which got a favorable Supreme Court ruling against race-conscious admissions at universities in June, was unable to sway Judge Richard Bennett at a hearing on Thursday in US District Court for the District of Maryland.
SFFA filed its suit against the Naval Academy in October, alleging that admissions should be based on merit, rather than seeking a student body reflective of ...
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