A New York State constitutional provision and a civil service statute required that military veterans with wartime service be granted extra points on competitive exams for state civil service jobs.

Wartime vets received a five-point bonus on the exam, and disabled vets received an extra ten points.

However, this bonus was limited to veterans who were New York residents at the time they entered military service.

Is this affirmative action program permissible under the Constitution and federal statutory law?

See Attorney General of the State of New York v. Soto-

Lopez [476 U.S. 898 (1986)].