President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is ending race-based admissions attached to the Coast Guard’s officer commissioning pipeline.
The move targets race-based requirements built into the College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative, the scholarship-and-commissioning path that turns college students into Coast Guard officers.
It is another concrete piece of the administration’s effort to strip racial preferences out of federal hiring and federal pipelines.
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The principle is simple. Officers should advance on merit, not skin color.
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That logic tracks with where the Supreme Court already landed on race-based admissions in higher education, a point the legal world has hammered repeatedly.
The legal argument around race-based admissions has only grown louder since the Supreme Court’s Harvard ruling, as Carrie Severino noted in a separate education fight:
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