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recruitment at the nation's military academies. He held out the possibility that an argument could be considered in a future case, 'in light of the potentially distinct interests that military academies may present.'" There have been subsequent unsuccessful challenges by the S.F.A. to the military academies' continued use of race-based admissions policies. My suggestion: The ruling acknowledges the "potentially distinct interests that military academies may present" and suggests that an argument on the matter could be considered in a future case.
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The lead paragraph currently says the Students for Fair Admissions ruling "does not explicitly apply to U.S. military academies..." I think it would be more precise to say: "the Court explicitly exempted the U.S. military academies and their use of race-based affirmative action from its ruling,"
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I think 'explicitly' is not the right term in this case. It implies that the matter of military academies was directly addressed in the decision. In the Washington Post article on the decision, it says that, "in a footnote, acknowledged that (sic) federal government's interest in diversity
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The British term for 'affirmative action' is 'positive discrimination', not 'positive action'. There's a difference between these terms! Positive action is about helping marginalised groups, but one will not lower standards for them. An example of helping them would be including them in
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which is more like how the WP article on the Students for Fair Admissions case puts it. Or: "the ruling explicitly left the door open for service academies to continue to use race-conscious admissions programs," which is how the Scotusblog source cited in that article puts it.
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apply to the military academies. The distinction seems important, but as a relatively new editor on WP, and recognizing this is a controversial topic, I hesitate to change it myself.
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Suggested edit to lead paragraph regarding military academies and the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case
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The way it's written now makes it seem like the court just didn't say explicitly that the ruling
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apply to the military academies, but actually the Court explicitly suggested that ruling
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I just added again, I think whoever edited it thought they were synonyms.
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