While I agree with much of your legal analysis, I think you are way too glass half empty about the prospect of changes from the Trump Adminstration. Both the current nominee for Secretary of Defense and the seeming backup if that nomination fails, DeSantis, are committed to rooting the woke out of the military. Why would the service academies be an exception? And, as to the prospects of the Democrats putting them back into place, I think that's if not unlikely, at least not probable. The whole trend has been in the opposite direction despite the "resistance." Let's remember how long it took to implement school integration. But it happened!
Thanks for this comment, Norm. You might be right, but I have never detected enthusiasm from Trump about taking on racial preferences. For example, the Trump Labor Department didn't put an end to the imposition of quotas on federal contractors, and his pick for Secretary in this administration isn't likely to do it either.
By contrast, I've seen enthusiasm from Trump about pandering to blacks, as when he backed jailbreak legislation advocated by his pal Kanye.
Trump wants a realignment in which blacks, or at least black men, support the MAGA movement. To the extent that Trump controls his own administration, an open question, he might well be reluctant to dial back racial preferences.
All true on Trump himself. And true on the Labor Department. However, the type of people Trump has selected for the Justice Department are a different story and the type of people he's selected as judges in the past fit that mold too. Plus, because the generals were hostle to him personally, he has committed to going after DEI in the military even though it may be for the wrong reasons.
While I agree with much of your legal analysis, I think you are way too glass half empty about the prospect of changes from the Trump Adminstration. Both the current nominee for Secretary of Defense and the seeming backup if that nomination fails, DeSantis, are committed to rooting the woke out of the military. Why would the service academies be an exception? And, as to the prospects of the Democrats putting them back into place, I think that's if not unlikely, at least not probable. The whole trend has been in the opposite direction despite the "resistance." Let's remember how long it took to implement school integration. But it happened!
Thanks for this comment, Norm. You might be right, but I have never detected enthusiasm from Trump about taking on racial preferences. For example, the Trump Labor Department didn't put an end to the imposition of quotas on federal contractors, and his pick for Secretary in this administration isn't likely to do it either.
By contrast, I've seen enthusiasm from Trump about pandering to blacks, as when he backed jailbreak legislation advocated by his pal Kanye.
Trump wants a realignment in which blacks, or at least black men, support the MAGA movement. To the extent that Trump controls his own administration, an open question, he might well be reluctant to dial back racial preferences.
All true on Trump himself. And true on the Labor Department. However, the type of people Trump has selected for the Justice Department are a different story and the type of people he's selected as judges in the past fit that mold too. Plus, because the generals were hostle to him personally, he has committed to going after DEI in the military even though it may be for the wrong reasons.
Superb. Jim Dueholm