cadet’s Fifth Amendment suit was the ideal vehicle for the Supreme Court to fix a 70-year-old mistake. The West Point Museum houses artifacts from the U.S. military academy of the same name, as well as the U.S. Army and the Profession of Arms. (Image courtesy of U.S. Military via Courthouse News) WASHINGTON (CN) — Justice Clarence Thomas balked Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider whether the prestigious military academy West Point negligently handled a cadet’s rape claim. The cadet filed her suit anonymously in 2013, three years after she says a fellow student raped her and she dropped out of the program, overwhelmed by the stress of trying to hold her assailant accountable through West Point’s disciplinary channels. Blaming her superior officers for having created a misogynistic and sexually aggressive culture at the school, Jane Doe said that they not only “discriminated against female cadets” but “put female cadets at risk of violent harm.”