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The Solomon Amendment says that if a school receives federal funds, it must grant Pentagon recruiters “equal access” to students. Until this past Tuesday, Harvard Law School had refused to provide assistance to any recruiter that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation. The Pentagon?...
The Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a group of over two dozen law schools that does not include Harvard, filed a suit against the Bush administration in Sept. 2003 charging that the amendment is unconstitutional.
Waxman’s brief, filed in support of FAIR, argues that the amendment is “a command rather than an inducement” because private universities receive about 60 percent of their research funding from the federal government.
The FAIR suit and the Waxman brief argue that the Solomon Amendment violates schools’ academic freedom rights by effectively silencing universities that want to “send a message” that is critical of the “don’t ask, don?...
Waxman’s brief argues that the high court can apply the “unconstitutional conditions” doctrine to overturn the Solomon Amendment without simultaneously undermining the Bob Jones ruling and other federal anti-discrimination policies, such as the 1972 gender equity statute known as Title IX...