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...Breyer, a 1964 graduate of Harvard Law School, asked during oral arguments Tuesday, “Why not interpret the statute in the way that the amicus brief suggests in order to avoid the difficult constitutional question...
...other employer is subject to the same policy, presumably, of the law school.”And Breyer, a 1964 graduate of Harvard Law School, specifically cited the Harvard professors’ argument, asking rhetorically, ”Why not interpret the statute in the way that the amicus brief suggests in order to avoid the difficult constitutional question?”Clement, who became solicitor general this year, just 13 years after graduating from Harvard Law School, at first sought to convince the justices that Congress intended to ensure the military more than “equal access?...
...Breyer, a 1964 graduate of Harvard Law School, specifically cited the Harvard professors’ argument, asking rhetorically, ”Why not interpret the statute in the way that the amicus brief suggests in order to avoid the difficult constitutional question...
...have any reason to believe that Judge Alito, once elevated to be Justice Alito, would be likely to accept a constitutional challenge to the Solomon Amendment,” Minow wrote in an e-mail. “The statutory interpretation argument offered in our amicus brief might be appealing to him...but if forced to bet, I’d bet against that prevailing, too,” she added...
...only recourse will be through the legislature. Under that circumstance, “if newspapers like The Crimson want these records, they’ll have to get the legislature to change the public records act,” said Leonard M. Singer, a lawyer who wrote an amicus brief siding with The Crimson...