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...this statutory argument suffered a severe blow before the high court Tuesday when the lead lawyer for the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), the nationwide network of law schools that is challenging the Solomon Amendment’s constitutionality, directly contradicted the Harvard professors’ claims...
...campus military recruitment violates law schools’ free speech rights.And the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a nationwide network of 36 law schools challenging the Pentagon’s recruitment policy, may have tossed away its only chance at victory by refusing to advance an argument made by 40 Harvard law professors that initially appeared to attract the support of several justices.The statute in question, known as the Solomon Amendment, allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds from schools that deny the military “equal access” to their campuses. Harvard Law School...
Most Harvard Law School (HLS) students reacted pessimistically to Supreme Court oral arguments regarding the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment yesterday morning, saying that the government’s position—rather than the law schools’ stance—seemed to resonate more with the justices. At the HLS Harkness Commons, students listened to an audio recording of the court’s arguments just minutes after they ended in Washington. Though only about 12 students were present at the start of the event, over 100 happened in as the clock approached noon. In the case, Rumsfeld...
...affiliated with Northeastern University Campus Against War and Racism. Although some of the protesters specifically criticized the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on homosexuality—an important aspect of the legal argument against the Solomon Amendment—most focused on a broader frustration with the U.S.’s involvement in Iraq. “I’m here to oppose the U.S. war in Iraq and the recruiting of young people to be sent there to kill...
...that students do not automatically enjoy the free speech rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. However, Geier cited a 1993 decision by the university that Penn students should at least have the same speech rights as students at public institutions, which must abide by the Constitution. The free speech argument found a sympathetic ear from some members of the Penn community.“I don’t condone the engineering junior who took pictures and posted it online. I thought that was disgusting of him,” Michelle M. Park, a Penn senior, wrote...