Topline The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency request seeking to bar the use of race as a factor in admissions at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, allowing the institution to ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., can continue considering race in its admissions process for now, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Philip M. Halpern rejected the ...

West Point pushed back on a student group's petition to the Supreme Court requesting it block the military academy from continuing its race-based admissions policies.

JUST FILED: the final brief in the emergency application to block West Point’s admissions procedures TODAY, the application deadline for new cadets. We could find out within hours if there are ...

In its lawsuit against West Point, SFFA argued the school “has no justification for using race-based admissions” and said its policy “discriminates on the basis of race.” ...

Representing West Point, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar urged the justices to allow West Point to continue to use its existing admissions process. Military leaders, Prelogar wrote, long ago ...

The justices signaled they could consider admissions at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in the future, writing that their order expressed no “view on the merits of the constitutional ...

West Point’s policy was challenged in September by Students for Fair Admissions, the same group that targeted affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the 2023 graduation ceremony at the United States Military Academy (USMA), at Michie Stadium in West Point, New York, U.S., May 27, 2023.