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.

The Justice Department settled lawsuits challenging race-based admissions at military academies ending years of legal battles over how the schools select candidates.

More than four months after the U.S. Air Force Academy announced it would no longer consider race as a factor in admissions, a lawsuit challenging the former practices at the