Word: bashman
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Experts weren’t surprised that FAIR spurned the statutory argument, since Congress could just amend the law again. A Philadelphia attorney who had filed a brief supporting the government’s case, Howard J. Bashman, noted that FAIR had prevailed in the Third Circuit Court by arguing on free-speech, not statutory, grounds...
...appellate lawyer Howard J. Bashman, who filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the Bush administration’s military recruitment policy is indeed constitutional, predicted that at least seven justices would vote to uphold the Solomon Amendment. In a phone interview with The Crimson this week, he stood by that forecast. “I don’t think it’s going to be that close of a vote,” Bashman said...
...Supreme Court was uncertain as to whether the Solomon Amendment was unconstitutional, they might have been more willing to postpone review until other circuits considered that question,” said Howard J. Bashman, a Pennsylvania attorney and appellate law expert...
...Bashman, who represented three law school veterans groups that filed friend-of-the-court briefs on the government’s behalf in an earlier stage of the FAIR case, predicted that the justices would strike down the Third Circuit ruling by at least a 7-2 margin. “And it’s likely to be unanimous,” he said...
...Bashman said the House resolution was most likely designed to garner press coverage and send a message “to the folks back home,” rather than to influence an already-sympathetic Bush administration...