“Federal Judge Upholds Racial Preferences in Naval Academy Admissions; A group that won a Supreme Court case challenging affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina had also sued the military academies”: Anemona Hartocollis of The New York Times has this report.
Susan Svrluga of The Washington Post reports that “Naval Academy can consider race in admissions, federal judge rules; The decision comes after the Supreme Court rejected the use of affirmative action in college admissions.”
And Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Judge upholds Naval Academy’s affirmative action.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland at this link.
“The Supreme Court Just Showed Us What Contempt for Expertise Looks Like”: Columnist M. Gessen has this essay online at The New York Times.
“TikTok Faces U.S. Ban After Losing Bid to Overturn New Law; The law will ban the video app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company”: Sapna Maheshwari of The New York Times has this report.
Eva Dou, Drew Harwell, and Cristiano Lima-Strong of The Washington Post report that “Appeals court upholds nationwide TikTok ban-or-sale law; The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit made the expedited decision ahead of the TikTok ban’s looming Jan. 19 deadline, in a high-profile case pitting national security concerns against free speech.”
Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Appeals Court Upholds U.S. Ban of TikTok; Panel rules Congress has the power to shut down Chinese-backed app in the U.S. because of national security concerns.”
And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has an article headlined “Clock is ticking: TikTok could go dark in U.S. on Jan. 19 as federal court upholds ban.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.