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...when the Pentagon threatened to cut off over $400 million in federal funding to the University this summer, Harvard joined with Yale and five other schools on a friend-of-the-court brief...
...brief is especially significant because the counsel of record for the schools, former solicitor general Seth P. Waxman ’73, has argued over 45 cases before the high court and is likely to have the ears of justices...
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...
Several previous rulings by the high court “plainly render constitutionally suspect any funding condition that coerces compliance,” according to the brief...
...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’t tell” policy...