{"id":595603,"date":"2023-10-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-supreme-court-wont-allow-racial-preferences-at-service-academies-either\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:00:00","slug":"the-supreme-court-wont-allow-racial-preferences-at-service-academies-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-supreme-court-wont-allow-racial-preferences-at-service-academies-either\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Supreme Court won\u2019t allow racial preferences at service academies, either"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Supreme Court ruled earlier this year in\u00a0Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard<\/a>\u00a0that race-based college admissions are unconstitutional, overruling its\u00a0precedent\u00a0in\u00a0Grutter v. Bollinger<\/a>\u00a0that upheld affirmative action in higher education admissions.\u00a0Although the SFFA\u00a0decision binds virtually all institutions of higher education, footnote four of the decision expressly excludes military service academies from the ruling, at least for now.<\/p>\n

One of the dissenting opinions in\u00a0SFFA, as well as some commenters,\u00a0have argued that this footnote is a \u201cpowerful exception\u201d from the majority\u2019s reasoning because \u201cdistinct interests\u201d exist in such military academies. But Chief Justice John Roberts did not say there were legitimate reasons to treat the military population differently; he merely said that there\u00a0might be such reasons.\u00a0\u00a0The dissents panned the majority for this caveat that permits \u201cdiversity in the bunker but not in the boardroom,\u201d but this matter was not decided: rather, it was merely left to another day.<\/p>\n