{"id":148697,"date":"2025-08-13T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148697"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:53:00","slug":"doj-reaches-agreement-with-west-point-air-force-academy-on-race-based-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/doj-reaches-agreement-with-west-point-air-force-academy-on-race-based-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ reaches agreement with West Point, Air Force Academy on race-based admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span>, August 13, 2025 <\/em>Real World News<\/span><\/a>
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Under a settlement reached with the Trump Administration on Tuesday, the Military Academy at West Point and Air Force Academy agreed to stop using race-based admissions preferences and select students \u201cexclusively on merit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump delivered the commencement address at West Point in June. \/ Video Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The settlement is part of President Donald Trump\u2019s effort to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies that were mandated across all federal agencies, the military and military academies during the Biden-Harris regime.<\/p>\n

The government settled a similar lawsuit against the Naval Academy earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s agreement ensures that our future military leaders will carry on the greatness that is born of opportunity, effort and a level playing field,\u201d said Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, which was handling the West Point case.<\/p>\n

Edward Blum, president of Students for Fair Admissions, said the settlement dismisses the group’s lawsuit, but he preserves the right to file again if the academies revert.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a historic day for the principle of equal treatment under the law at our nation\u2019s military academies,\u201d Blum said. \u201cTogether with the Naval Academy case earlier this year, this agreement ensures that America\u2019s critically important military service academies will admit future officers based solely on merit, not skin color or ancestry.\u201d<\/p>\n

A study by Zach Goldberg found that a white applicant with a 5% chance of admission at the Naval Academy would have had a 50% chance if the same scores were for a black applicant, and more than 70% of black applicants wouldn\u2019t have been admitted under a strict merit system.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court in 2023 struck down affirmative action policies in most college admissions. The justices said the military academies may be able to justify race-based admissions policies because of their special needs for officer training and military readiness.<\/p>\n

In its 2023 ruling, the Supreme Court said in a 6-3 decision that race-based preferences in school admissions couldn\u2019t survive heightened constitutional scrutiny under the equal protection clause.<\/p>\n

Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the majority opinion, noted that military academies could be an exception because of the military\u2019s special demands and the potential need to train a diverse officer corps.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo military academy is a party to these cases, but none of the courts below addressed the propriety of race-based admissions systems in that context. This opinion also does not address the issue, in light of the potentially distinct interests that military academies may present,\u201d the chief justice wrote in a footnote in the majority ruling.<\/p>\n

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by WorldTribune Staff, August 13, 2025 Real World News Under a settlement reached with the Trump Administration on Tuesday, the Military Academy at West Point and Air Force Academy agreed to stop using race-based admissions preferences and select students \u201cexclusively on merit.\u201d The settlement is part of President Donald Trump\u2019s effort to eliminate diversity, equity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":148698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,18,14,12,5],"tags":[391,392,393],"class_list":["post-148697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-story","category-u-s-military","category-world-links","category-world-tribune","tag-air-force-academy-on-race-based-admissions","tag-doj-reaches-agreement-with-west-point","tag-worldtribunecom","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}