Race-Conscious Policies Defended in Court by U.S. Naval Academy

The group that persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to bar the consideration of race in college admissions took the U.S. Naval Academy to trial on Monday in an effort to end a carve-out that allows military academies to still employ affirmative action policies.

A lawyer for Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a group founded by affirmative action foe Edward Blum, told a federal judge in Baltimore that the Naval Academy was unlawfully applying “significant” racial preference when deciding who should be admitted to the Annapolis, Maryland-based school.

Read more at Reuters.