US Supreme Court is asked to stop West Point from considering race in admissions

A group opposed to affirmative action on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions while a dispute over the practice proceeds in a lower court.
The request came from Students for Fair Admissions, the group behind a successful Supreme Court challenge to race-conscious collegiate admissions policies in cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.
West Point is a prestigious military service academy in New York state that educates cadets for commissioning into the U.S. Army. Students for Fair Admissions said that West Point’s application deadline for the class of 2028 is Jan. 31, and asked the Supreme Court to decide the request for an injunction by that time.