The West Point lawsuit, filed in 2023, was initially rejected by a federal judge in New York, but the student group petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court which had sided with the anti-affirmative action group in its landmark ruling banning race-conscious admissions at colleges. But justices declined to consider the case, saying it was "undeveloped."

Officials at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Air Force Academy settled litigation with the Justice Department regarding their race-driven admissions practices. Students for Fair Admissions,

Months after President Donald Trump ordered the nation’s military academies to scrap policies that allowed admissions officials to consider race, an anti-affirmative action group this week dropped a pair of lawsuits against West Point and the Air Force Academy.