Federal judge allows Naval Academy to continue using race in admissions for now – POLITICO

A federal judge denied a request to temporarily bar the Naval Academy from using race in its admissions process during a hearing Thursday.

Judge Richard Bennett ruled from the bench in Baltimore that Students for Fair Admissions had not sufficiently shown that its case would likely succeed against the military school.

Bennett emphasized that his ruling was not on the merits of the case, but on the argument SFFA has presented so far.

Multiple times during the hearing, which ran more than two hours, Bennett was combative with the lawyers representing SFFA, a group whose lawsuits essentially dismantled race-conscious admissions in higher education earlier this year before the Supreme Court. He also called a preliminary injunction against the Naval Academy an extraordinary remedy.

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