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The panel ruled “the government has failed to proffer a shred of evidence” that the Solomon Amendment enhances national security, a prerequisite for the statute’s constitutionality. If anything, the panel argued, the policy “generate[s] ill will toward the...
“The United States continues to believe that the Solomon Amendment is constitutional,” Justice Department spokesman Blain Rethmeier said yesterday. “We are examining the opinion and considering our options.”
Students and faculty celebrated the Third Circuit’s ruling but criticized the University’s central administration for failing to take the lead in Solomon Amendment litigation.
University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote in a letter to gay alums last December that “the Solomon Amendment as interpreted and enforced is bad public policy.” But he resisted a petition by law professors calling on Harvard to file suit against the Pentagon.
He said he did not know which Harvard officials were responsible for the University’s inaction on the Solomon Amendment issue. “I do not know who bears responsibility,” Dershowitz said, “but I think we are owed an explanation.?...