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Although the Bush administration has backed the Solomon Amendment vigorously, Boston College law professor Kent Greenfield suggested that Alito might not adhere to the administration’s stance.
Greenfield is the president of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of 38 law schools and law faculties that filed suit against the Pentagon to halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment. Harvard is not a member of the coalition, but the University did sign a friend...
In the Pitt News case, the college daily at the University of Pittsburgh challenged a Pennsylvania state law barring alcohol advertisements in student newspapers. A three-judge appellate panel struck down the law, ruling that it violated the newspaper’s First Amendment rights.
If Alito applied the same standard to the Solomon Amendment case, he might back FAIR’s arguments, Greenfield said.
FAIR has asserted that the financial burdens imposed by the Solomon Amendment undermine law schools’ rights to express their disapproval of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.