BREAKING: The lawyers behind last year's Harvard affirmative action case have gone back to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to end the use of race-conscious admissions policies at West Point by the end of January.

In the Friday evening filing on the shadow docket, the lawyers are asking the justices for an injunction blocking the use of race-conscious admissions policies at the military academies (here, West Point) this year, citing a Jan. 31 application deadline.

[Update, noon Saturday: The court ordered a response from the government to be filed by 5 p.m. Tuesday.]

In the June 2023 Supreme Court ruling ending race-conscious admissions policies in higher education, the opinion specifically noted that it was not addressing whether such policies at military academies could pass constitution muster.

This case seeks to force the justices to address that unresolved question.