Rand Paul’s Expose Of Anthony Fauci Reads Like A Bioweapon Spy Thriller

Deception presents massive evidence for two propositions: 

Covid was created with U.S. funding, and Fauci covered up his responsibility for creating that situation.

posted by Joy Pullman at The Federalist

Most books by politicians are ghostwritten, poll-tested, reputation-whitewashing, score-settling mental baby food. Sen. Rand Paul’s book out this weekend, Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up, instead reads like a mash-up of the true-crime and spy thriller genres.

It’s an in-depth accounting of how one man — Anthony Fauci — may be responsible for not only creating the Covid-19 outbreak but for turning an accident into a global catastrophe. It emphasizes that all the dangerous conditions that unleashed Covid persist, and could easily lead to another, far worse pandemic any time now through incompetence, hubris, or terrorism.

Paul documents that the man sitting on “the biggest pile of infectious disease funding in the world” used that massive influence over “science (TM)” to cover up his involvement with Frankenstein science that appears to have unleashed a laboratory-worsened disease on the world. The devastating consequences have only begun to appear.

This isn’t conjecture. Paul publishes the receipts in this 423-page thriller, one assumes in an attempt to provide posterity key evidence that weak and evil men like Fauci are still working to obscure, vilify, smear, and contaminate.

The Crime

Deception presents reams of evidence for two propositions: Covid was created in a Wuhan lab with U.S. research funding, and Fauci was sly and powerful enough to cover up his responsibility for creating that situation. In fact, the vast majority of unprecedented pandemic repression measures the developed world took can be considered a diabolical exercise in bureaucratic butt-covering.

It wasn’t just self-protection by corrupt scientists like Fauci, but also by myriad intelligence and defense agencies. You see, U.S. (and certainly other) security agencies are funding bioweapons and related research that has already created other amped-up viruses like Covid, Paul shows. They say they’re trying to catalog recipes for souped-up viruses in order to prevent future pandemics, but, well, let’s just say the world may have experienced one of the top risks of that ethically monstrous endeavor already.

Voters learning Covid leaked from a lab that applied for U.S. national security funding for coronavirus enhancement could bring the house down on the very security agencies funding these means of worldwide pandemics and terrorist tools, Paul argues. The same is true for Fauci and U.S. scientific funding programs like those he ran.

So these very powerful institutions had more than enough incentive to brutalize the world to keep their money spigots wide open. You can thank that massive, effective cover-up effort for increasingly totalitarian impositions including the Internet Iron Curtain descending on the West.

The Cover-Up

Paul shows the damning circumstantial and direct evidence indicating that as soon as Fauci was aware of Covid, he swung into action to hide that he’d funded its creation through NIAID grants to EcoHealth Alliance, ignoring the consequences to innocent millions across the world. One key means of this is “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” paper, or “Proximal Origins.” Fauci commissioned and pre-approved this paper (Paul, 32), which he later used as a weapon to beat out of public discourse any arguments the virus was grown in a lab he funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars.

“Proximal Origins” was published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020. It is the No. 3 most-linked of the nearly 400,000 research articles tracked of a similar age, says its Altmetric count. Three of its authors, Paul shows — Kristian Andersen, Edward Holmes, and Robert Garry — emailed Fauci late on Jan. 31, 2020, to say the virus looked to their professional eyes like it was human-engineered, and therefore leaked from a lab.

Andersen and Holmes also said so the next day on a conference call with international virologists (Paul, 21). Four days later, on Feb. 4, 2020, however, the “Proximal Origin” authors were showing Fauci a draft of their paper arguing the exact opposite.

“So, the very day they [Andersen and Garry] were privately 60-80 percent sure the virus came from a lab leak, they completed the first draft of a paper entitled ‘Proximal Origin,’ which argued against a lab leak and became, as Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke put it, ‘the media’s and the public health establishment’s go-to evidence of a natural origin for the virus.'” (27). Four days after emails and other evidence show him privately saying the virus looked engineered, Andersen was publicly calling lab-engineering claims “crackpot theories.”

“A lab leak origin was quickly dismissed as a ‘fringe theory’ by the Washington Post and a ‘conspiracy theory’ by the New York Times” in February 2020 because those publications relied on these same scientists Fauci paid to protect his power and reputation from the truth, noted Michael Barone this summer. It’s yet another example of how what the same publications’ fact-checkers rate as “reliable” is indeed reliable — reliable super-spreading of government disinformation.

Fauci didn’t just use his dragon’s hoard of taxpayer gold to influence scientists and reliably gullible media outlets. He also used it to influence top U.S. intelligence, national defense, and health agencies.

“Fauci not only visited the CIA but also pushed the controversial ‘Proximal Origin of SARS CoV-2’ paper, published by Nature Medicine, in meetings at the State Department and the White House,” a Racket and Public investigation revealed a week ago. “…the new information from multiple sources, including a CIA whistleblower, a senior government investigator, and a senior official, suggests a broad effort by Fauci to go agency by agency, from the White House to the State Department to the CIA, in an effort to steer government officials away from looking into the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from a lab.”

The Consequences

Fauci’s cover-up worked extremely well. Neither Democrats nor nearly all Republicans, still, have taken any serious action to rein in any health or intelligence bureaucracy in the slightest. If Covid’s repercussions couldn’t get them to do it, or all the lost wars since Vietnam, or the FBI’s persecution of Democrats’ political opponents, one shudders to think what it might take for these flaccid-souled cuckolds to arise.

Fauci’s may have been the most egregious Covid cover-up, but it wasn’t the only one, by far. Via administrative agencies’ refusal to release documents plus the rampant use of classification clearly to protect not national security but bureaucrats’ job security, Paul constantly notes he has sought documents he’s so far been unable to obtain. He even notes seeing emails showing the security bureaucracy talking about ignoring his document requests like they’re the bosses, not elected representatives.

“As a sitting U.S. senator who spent two years trying to investigate the origins of the pandemic, I only learned about the request for DARPA [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] to fund the insertion of a furin cleavage site into a coronavirus [making it far more dangerous to humans] from a leak to the media,” Paul writes (377). Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Paul to his face in a hearing that he wouldn’t release unclassified documents to his elected alleged overseers in Congress.

To put it mildly, that’s a completely insane situation. It’s unconstitutional and against all the “norms” of constitutional government. Congress is supposed to be the supreme lawmaking authority in this country. Every federal agency is supposed to answer to them, including national security agencies. That is clearly not the case anymore, and it marks the end of representative government.

We, the people, do not rule ourselves if we have no idea and cannot find out what any given agency is doing with our money, institutions, personnel, and policies. We don’t rule ourselves if our representatives have no idea what’s happening inside the agencies they keep funding with 30 years of continuing resolutions nobody but defense lobbyists read. Until the “muh democracy” crowd ends this, they’re complicit.

“Any agency that funded the gain-of-function research in Wuhan or in the United States or anywhere in the world now denies that the research was gain of function and fights tenaciously to keep any record that they funded this dangerous research from the public eye,” Paul notes. “So fierce is their will that they have refused to divulge records even when I enlisted twenty-five fellow senators to sign the records requests. The deep state is simply an alignment of interests among bureaucrats throughout the federal government to cover up any responsibility for funding research that, in all likelihood, led to a lab leak that killed millions” (380).

Fools and Traitors

It’s one thing to be deceived by our nation’s top foreign adversary, China. It’s entirely another to be deceived by Americans in the public employ wielding enormous power in near-total secrecy. There’s a huge difference between enemies outside one’s gates and enemies inside one’s gates. That difference is why Dante reserved his deepest region of hell for traitors.

Cowards, stooges, and fools in positions of leadership, willingly following traitors like Fauci, locked us all in our basements for three years over a virus plenty of evidence says Fauci is responsible for creating, and that we very belatedly learned most people survive. No surprise these same cowards, fools, and stooges don’t want to look into their own dereliction of duty that allowed all this to happen. If they can’t seek restitution by using their power to undo the systems they oversee that did this to the world, they should resign.

Paul’s book accents that the same conditions that allowed governments to terrorize their own people over the Covid chimera persist. Indeed, Paul notes, “A high-ranking former CDC official told me in confidence that he believes the next leak will be worse, with a fatality rate ranging from 5 percent to as high as 50 percent” (Paul, 419).

Leaders who don’t have the will to preserve their own people are how you get the Gracchi. Trump is tame in comparison to what will come if Paul’s deeply documented complaints in this book — the voice of millions — are not heard.

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Thoughts on Proclamation 7463, or ‘Digital McCarthyism’ on the Move

As I say, things are always worse than they seem.

by Roger Kimball for American Greatness

On September 14, 2001, George W. Bush, exercising “the power vested in [him] as President of the Untied States,” issued Proclamation 7463, a “Declaration of National Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks.” That got the ball rolling on the construction of the surveillance state.

At the time, the extreme measure seemed justified. Three days earlier, the United States had suffered its most devastating terrorist attack in history.

But how about this: On September 8, 2023, Joe Biden quietly renewed the Bush era emergency measures for another year. I was told there would be no math, but that makes 22 years and counting that a vast array of surveillance assets have been mobilized against—against whom?

When George W. Bush was president, they were focused on al Qaeda and kindred groups. Today?

Today, that fearsome governmental power is still assembled. Increasingly, however, it seems to be focused against those the administration fears or dislikes.

Traditional Catholics, for example, or parents upset with their local school boards.

At the head of the list of potential “domestic extremists” are the tens of millions of people who support Donald Trump (not to mention, of course, Trump himself). A couple of days ago, Hillary Clinton took to CNN (it would be CNN) to say that something needed to be done to silence those misguided people who supported Trump. “Maybe,” she said, “there needs to be a formal deprogramming” of MAGA “cult members.”

Apparently the FBI agrees. According to a much-cited article in Newsweek, the agency has created a “new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers.” That article suggests that the FBI is struggling to combat genuine threats without attacking people who simply support Trump and other populist candidates. I wonder, though, how scrupulous they are being in protecting people’s Constitutional rights to free speech and political dissent.

Actually, I do not wonder. It is quite clear, as The New York Post observed, that the agency is deploying “some of the same counterterrorism methods honed to fight al Qaeda” in its scrutiny of Trump supporters and “AGAAVE,” i.e., “anti-government, anti-authority violent extremism” (an acronym that, as the Post suggested, “looks like a typo for a sugar substitute”).

Let me reprise here something I wrote back in April of this year: As a working principle, the conviction that things are always worse than they seem is hard to beat.

Along with the observation from William Dean Howells that the problem for a critic isn’t making enemies but keeping them, that mournful conviction that things are worse than they seem has the twin clarifying advantage of being psychologically helpful and empirically true.

Both have stood me in good stead.

That is to say, if Johnny Mercer was right that one should “accentuate the positive,” one should also avoid the attitude of Dr. Pangloss who, Leibnizian that he was, taught that this is “the best of all possible worlds.”

As readers of “Candide” will recall, that rose-colored sentiment didn’t do much to protect Cunégonde.

I was reminded of this constellation of mottos while reading Jacob Siegel’s long and meticulously researched “Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century.”

Siegel’s brilliant if melancholy overview shows in exhaustive detail how the U.S. government, abetted by the mainstream media and what has come to be called “elite” or “ruling class” opinion generally, has repurposed surveillance tools developed to combat terrorism and turned them against the American people.

I know that sounds dramatic. In fact, it’s actually an understatement.

We have been vouchsafed glimpses of life behind the curtain for a while now. Hillary’s Clinton’s recent CNN rant and FBI’s new, extra-wide category of what counts as “extremism” or incipient terrorism show that the threat is metastasizing.

Siegel focuses mostly on developments in the United States. But it’s worth noting that the story he unravels is an international concession, proceeding, for example, with initiatives such as the Davos-inspired “Great Reset.”

I have written about various aspects of the phenomena that Siegel aggregates in his sinewy and alarming essay. For example, I wrote about Matt Taibbi’s exposé of “Hamilton 68,” a shadowy group of anti-Trump activists who succeeded in publicly branding anyone or anything they didn’t like as emanating from “Russian disinformation.”

“Instead of tracking how ‘Russia’ influenced American attitudes,” Taibbi notes, “Hamilton 68 simply collected a handful of mostly real, mostly American accounts, and described their organic conversations as Russian scheming.”

Simply in terms of volume, Taibbi estimates that Hamilton 68 “may go down as the single greatest case of media fabulism in American history.” Virtually every major news organization in America was involved: NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Even fact-checking sites such as Politifact and Snopes, Taibbi notes, “cited Hamilton 68 as a source. The people at Hamilton 68 simply targeted individuals they didn’t like, individuals such as Devin Nunes, Mike Flynn, Tulsi Gabbard, or Donald Trump—and then smeared them as witting or unwitting stooges of Vladimir Putin.

The whole scheme, Taibbi shows, was a splendid example of “digital McCarthyism, taking people with dissident or unconventional opinions and mass-accusing them of ‘Un-American activities.’”

But Siegel shows this was the but the tip of the censorship iceberg. His essay shows that kindred developments stood behind the state narrative about COVID-19, the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the Capitol, “domestic terrorists,” as well as anything having to do with Trump.

A critical moment was Jan. 6, 2017. It was then, in the waning days of the Obama administration, that Jeh Johnson, head of the Department of Homeland Security, placed the property of all 8,000 election jurisdictions under the control of the DHS.

“It was a coup,” Siegel notes, that Johnson had been aiming at since 2016.

At first, he was blocked by local authorities who explained that, as the Constitution stipulates, running elections was the sole responsibility of state legislatures. Johnson justified his action by invoking the emergency of (totally spurious) “Russian interference.”

His success meant that in the final weeks of the Obama administration, “the new counter-disinformation apparatus scored one of its most significant victories: the power to directly oversee federal elections that would have profound consequences for the 2020 contest between Trump and Joe Biden.”

But Siegel shows that the rot began much earlier. Remember the “Global War on Terror” mounted by the Bush administration following the terrorist attacks of 9/11?

It was then that the Patriot Act and kindred initiatives (like  Proclamation 7463) licensed the construction of a sprawling surveillance network, ostensibly focused on foreign bad guys but soon repurposed in a way that “suspended constitutional rights and placed millions of Americans under a shadow of mass surveillance.”

“The seamless transition from the war on terror to the war on disinformation,” Siegel writes, “was thus, in large measure, simply a matter of professional self-preservation. But it was not enough to sustain the previous system; to survive, it needed to continually raise the threat level.”

And raise the threat level “it”—the deep state—has consistently done, such that anyone who challenges its diktats is regarded as an enemy. How did this happen? Americans didn’t choose to give up their liberties and constitutional rights. The choice was made for them.

As Siegel writes: “Americans are no longer presumed to have the right to choose their own leaders or to question decisions made in the name of national security. Anyone who says otherwise can be labeled a domestic extremist.”

Siegel’s essay is a tour de force whose richness and detail I can only hint at here. If I had to summarize his findings, I would emphasize three points.

First, that “after the pretense of fighting a foreign threat fell away, what was left was the core mission to enforce a narrative monopoly over truth.” We see that everywhere, whether the subject is Trump, Jan. 6, COVID, Russia, the joys of transsexuality, or the brittleness of the Constitution in the face of the perpetual emergency foisted upon us by the permanent state.

The second point follows that brittleness: “The pattern in these cases is that the ruling class justifies taking liberties with the law to save the planet but ends up violating the Constitution to hide the truth and protect itself.”

And that brings me to the third and most fundamental principle that Siegel has uncovered in this harrowing piece of work: That the ruling class, the elite that officiates over the ceremonies, perquisites, and directives of the deep state, are bound by one overriding conviction. “As a class,” Siegel concludes, “their highest principle is that they alone can wield power.” No one who reads this essay can doubt that this is true.

As I say, things are always worse than they seem.

Slowly at First, Then All at Once

posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse 

Many people are struggling to understand the extent of the radicalization that is currently taking place inside our nation.  Fewer still are willing to accept that all the datapoints in the continuum lead us to a very specific place.

For the intents of this outline, consider the attack against Israel by Hamas as one element of a destructive story that will not remain isolated as a war in the Middle East. Gaza is to the transit of terrorists into Israel, as Mexico is a transit hub into the United States.

On September 22, 2023, the Dept of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) dropped the latest statistics on illegal alien apprehensions at the U.S. southern border.  [DATA HERE] As a current surge is underway, the August apprehension rate was 304,162, the highest of any month so far on record.

[Press release here]  Since Joe Biden took office, over 7.5 million illegal aliens have been encountered and released into the United States. Of that number, 5.18 million were single adult males.  This is a wholesale invasion of illegal aliens on a scale never before fathomed.  The people behind Joe Biden have purposefully created this crisis, and it is getting worse.

We are beginning to see the crime rate increase in proportion to the import of 5+ million young adult males culturally prone to violence.   We are only now on the cusp of what is to come.  There will be intense increases in the types of crimes, and specifically young females will be the most vulnerable victims.  Rapes, sexual assaults, robberies, carjackings and home invasions will increase….

….Slowly at first, then all at once.

How can I be so certain?  It’s not a complex understanding.

We have all witnessed specific datapoints reflecting how the radical left, essentially Marxists and communists, took full control of the Democrat party.  For all intents and purposes, the ideology they carry is the same outlook and worldview of the people behind Barack Obama.  Those same people are currently exploiting Joe Biden as the single-term disposable option to radically compromise our nation.  The open borders are one part of that dynamic.

Inside the institutions there are facilitators for this process.  One example surfaced in November of 2021, and few people paid any attention to it.

Inside a report, issued by the Dept of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ-OIG), the summary of the OIG finding was that someone inside the DOJ Civil Rights Division, someone in charge of the secretive internal agency known as the Community Relations Service (CRS), gave access to the computer database of Main Justice to employment applicants for the CRS. [OIG Report Link]

We have tracked the CRS activity for years {Example Go Deep}.  The core ideology of the CRS is virtually unknown to the public.  The activists who apply for employment positions inside the CRS have one ideological outlook in support of radical elements like NAACP, Black Lives Matter, ANTIFA, and other social justice causes.  There is no other ideology in the agency of the CRS. Advancement of radical race-based agenda is their mission within the DOJ.  That reality is well beyond dispute.

As a consequence, anyone applying for a job with CRS would have a very specific purpose.  The motive for CRS leadership, to give a CRS applicant access to the Main Justice database potentially exploiting the entire federal Department of Justice, can only be looked upon as purposeful.  Think of this “misconduct” like giving BLM, Antifa, ShareBlue, NAACP or the radical elements of the DNC access to the Dept of Justice files:  [September 8, 2021]

“The Community Relations Service (CRS), a component of the Department of Justice (DOJ), serves as “America’s Peacemaker” for communities in conflict by mediating disputes and enhancing community capacity to independently prevent and resolve future conflicts.” (read more)

Now think about this in very non-pretending terms.  If you anticipated community crisis as a result of a cultural shift from the introduction of a violent virus upon the host, it would make sense to control the institution used as a 911 service for when that violent outburst is triggered.  Pre-seeding the CRS with a specific ideological intention helps the institution of the DOJ defer responsibility when all hell breaks loose.

The hell breaking loose part is not a matter of if, but when.  We are in the slow beginning phase right now, but it will escalate quickly.  Slowly at first, then all at once. That’s the design of extremism when seeded as a change mechanism.  This is also why there is so much leftist agitation and emphasis on keeping the DOJ, FBI and all other federal law enforcement agencies focused on the wrong threat.  This is the cultural aspect, the politically correct aspect, and it is part of the design.

Starting in 2009, all of the systems of federal government were now under the control of the people who previously fought against the systems of federal government.  Everything since is an outcome of that inflection point; that’s why everything flipped.

All of it, and I do mean every scintilla of the thing; every single granular detail and example you can put in front of me can be traced back to that moment when the activists were no longer outside government railing against the corrupt system they hated.

Starting in January of 2009, the activists took power over the United States government, and every outside institution, including media, necessarily and ideologically followed that inversion.

Starting in 2009, the systems and institutions of the U.S government now came under the control of the radical activists.

In the eight years that followed, the mission of every institution was changed.  Government was weaponized on behalf of the leftist activists who now took control of it.  Everything thereafter is a consequence of this change.

When I use the word “suddenly”, it is only for understanding the inflections point that came as a consequence.  In actuality, the severity of change inside each institution took place over several years.  That’s why the intensity of the weaponized and corrupt systems became worse over time.

As each institution was infiltrated, to become more aligned with the mindset of the activists, the institutions became more radical in their targeting and weaponization.

Simultaneously, the politicians on the left aligned with the mindset of the radical activists.  The Black Lives Matter, Dream Defenders and ANTIFA extremists are part of the leftist political apparatus; just like the leftists view the Palestinians.   As the Muslim Brotherhood is to militant Islam, so too is the Democrat Party to domestic terrorists in the United States.

You can wax philosophically about the intent of a demographic change to the benefit of one political party, I’m not going to debate that issue.  However, the immediate issue for you, your family and your community, is not who they vote for.

The immediate issue, the one you should be first to prepare for, is your physical safety when the “slowly” changes to “all at once.”

Have you ever boiled milk?

Smith and Wesson Ditches Blue Massachusetts, Moves HQ to Friendlier Tennessee

Bob Hoge reporting for RedState 

In a move that will surely make my colleagues Jeff Charles and Ward Clark happy, renowned firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson ditched deep blue Massachusetts and moved its headquarters to friendlier pastures in Tennessee. Although the move was announced in 2021, it was on Saturday that the company officially opened its new 650,000-square feet building in Marysville as part of a $125 million relocation effort.

The company has been in New England since its founding in 1852, but Massachusetts' strict gun laws are at least partly to blame for their exodus:

The gunmaker had been located in Springfield, Massachusetts, since the mid-19th century, but company officials have said legislative proposals in that state would prohibit them from manufacturing certain weapons. Massachusetts is known to have some of the country’s strictest gun laws.

I'm sure the high taxes didn't help either; there's a reason some call the state "Taxachusetts." It's also certainly not a coincidence that Tennessee is far friendlier to law-abiding gun owners than Mass.:

Smith & Wesson President and CEO Mark Smith spoke at the event Saturday, which drew a large crowd to the new facility, The Daily Times reported.

“From where I stand, the next 170 years of Smith & Wesson are looking pretty good," Smith said. “It is something special here in Tennessee."

He cited a welcoming regulatory environment and close collaboration with the Tennessee state government as a crucial piece of the plan to relocate. The company has said the new facility would create hundreds of jobs.

Tennessee has moved to loosen gun restrictions in recent years under Republican leadership. In 2021, the state passed a law to allow most adults 21 and older to carry handguns without a permit that requires first clearing a state-level background check and training.

The National Rifle Association applauded the move and congratulated the company on their ribbon-cutting ceremony:

"Congratulations to Smith & Wesson on their grand opening in Tennessee. This move is a testament to their enduring legacy, their commitment to firearm excellence, and to the importance of preserving America’s gun industry and Second Amendment rights in a fair environment," NRA Executive Director of Advancement Tyler Schropp told Fox News Digital in an exclusive comment. 

As part of the opening day ceremonies, guns were naturally fired, and shooter Jerry Miculek set a world record:

This is how it's done, folks. If a state is treating a company badly, they should get the heck out of dodge and relocate to where they're appreciated. California Gov. Gavin Newsom knows this all too well, as dozens of corporations have headed for the exits during his disastrous tenure. The full list is lengthy, but here are just a few of who have fled the Golden State in just the last three years: McAfee (cybersecurity), Boingo Wireless, American Airlines (flight attendant base), Chevron, Tesla, Charles Schwab, Oracle... 

Ok, you get the idea. The point is, just like Bud Light and Target learned, the power of the purse is tremendous. If you're not wanted, then why not take your money and go elsewhere?

Nice shot, Smith & Wesson.

Lawsuit: U.S. Naval Academy’s Consideration of Race In Its Admissions Process Is Unconstitutional

Shawn Fleetwood reporting for The Federalist 

The U.S. Naval Academy’s use of race-based admissions policies violates provisions of the U.S. Constitution, a lawsuit filed on Thursday alleges.

Filed in the Northern District Court of Maryland by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the suit, as summarized by Politico, argues that the academy is violating applicants’ Fifth Amendment rights by “engaging in racial balancing in their admissions of new classes.” According to SFFA, the Naval Academy is discriminating against applicants who are white and Asian in favor of those who are black, Hispanic, and Native American.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Pentagon, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, and two leading Naval Academy officials are listed as defendants in the suit.

“America’s enemies do not fight differently based on the race of the commanding officer opposing them,” the lawsuit reads. “Sailors must follow orders without regard to the skin color of those giving them and battlefield realities apply equally to all sailors regardless of race, ethnicity or national origin.”

SFFA has asked the court to issue a judgment declaring the Naval Academy’s consideration of race in its admissions policies as a violation of the Fifth Amendment. The group also requested the court issue an injunction barring the academy from using these practices.

A nonprofit dedicated to fighting race-based college admissions policies, SFFA is the group that brought its lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s race-based admissions policies to the U.S. Supreme Court this past year. In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS sided with SFFA and ruled that the aforementioned universities’ consideration of applicants’ race during the admissions process violates the 14th Amendment. The decision effectively ended affirmative action policies for institutions of higher education.

While legacy media outlets have interpreted a footnote included in the majority opinion to mean that U.S. military academies are exempt from the ruling, legal specialists have argued that such an argument isn’t true. Writing in these pages, William Woodruff, a professor of law emeritus and retired Army lawyer, noted how SCOTUS “did not hold that equal protection principles do not apply to the military service academies’ admissions practices” and did not “carve out an exception to the principle that race-based college admissions policies violate the Constitution.”

The footnote in question “stated that without a fully developed record examining military-specific interests, the court will not address — much less uphold, affirm, reject, or condemn — whatever policies the service academies use in their admissions process,” Woodruff wrote. “Declining to address an issue because it was not part of the underlying litigation is not affirming, exempting, carving out, or otherwise approving of a particular practice.”

In addition to suing the Naval Academy, SFFA filed a lawsuit against West Point last month, challenging the institution’s alleged use of race and ethnicity in its admissions process.