An anti-affirmative action group is suing the US Military Academy at West Point over race-based admissions policies
By Jamiel Lynch, CNN
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The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that colleges could no longer take race into consideration for granting admissions – except for US military service academies.
The Supreme Court's June ruling prohibiting race-based admissions practices excludes U.S. military service academies.