West Point Can Consider Race in Admissions During Challenge (1)

The US Military Academy at West Point will be able to consider race as a factor in its admissions process while a case challenging that policy is pending.

Anti-affirmative action advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions, which got a favorable Supreme Court ruling last June against race considerations in university admissions, argued that an injunction would restore a status quo for the academy before it factored race into its admissions decisions.

That “extraordinary and drastic remedy” would reverse four decades of established policy at the university and require myriad changes to take place that could impact multiple admissions cycles, Judge ...