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...aside the moral question of gayness. Conservative blacks should denounce the Massachusetts law in question not because they've suddenly decided to embrace something they find wrong but because the law is wrong. It's ostensibly a Federalist argument that is in fact homophobic-and was racist-in intent. And it offends me to the core that lawmakers would deny equal rights to one minority group using a statute created to target others, a statute that could have barred, even invalidated, my existence and might have prevented me from marrying my (white) boyfriend from Massachusetts in Massachusetts. Remember that...
...Solomon Amendment controversy converged at Harvard Law School (HLS) yesterday to debate the constitutionality of the 1994 statute.Kent Greenfield, a professor at Boston College Law School, joined John C. Eastman, a professor at Chapman University School of Law for a debate in Pound Hall sponsored by the HLS Federalist Society.The Solomon Amendment gives the Secretary of Defense the authority to block federal funds to any university that “either prohibits, or in effect prevents” military recruitment on campus. Its constitutionality will be the subject of Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), which will...
...likely, say Republicans. Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society and a White House advisor on the Roberts nomination, says Roberts is too smart to get drawn in. "He knows it's about 51 votes," Leo says. Former Indiana Representative David McIntosh says Roberts is focused on keeping his far right supporters happy while reassuring centrist Republicans who are the key to his confirmation. Roberts' six-minute opening remarks today managed to cram in tips of the hat to both groups. For the hardliners, he argued the importance of rule of law over individual rights. For the centrists...
...Rehnquist wrote in the decision that "we can think of no better example of the police power, which the Founders denied the National Government and reposed in the States, than the suppression of violent crime and vindication of its victims." Partly because of Rehnquist's reorientation of the federalist balance, "he is one of the most important figures in the entire history of American law," says Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago...
Meanwhile, he touched all the Republican bases but didn't slide in hard. He occasionally took part in meetings of the Federalist Society, an influential conservative legal organization based in Washington, but never got around to joining. He helped advise Governor Jeb Bush during the 2000 Florida recount but never went on TV. "Most people get places in this city with political connections, financial connections or by persistent and unstopping self-promotion," says Lazarus. "But that's not John." Even his wife's brand of political activism came with a group heterogeneously called Feminists for Life...