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Harvard Law School has for many years required employers to affirm that they do not discriminate as a condition to their use of the facilities of the Office of Career Services. Other schools—including the Business School, the Graduate School of Education and the Kennedy School of Government??have similar policies. Last year Harvard gave military recruiters full access to the OCS, despite the military’s discriminatory policies, on the grounds that $328 million in federal funding was at risk if it refused to comply with the Solomon Amendment. While we deplore the presence...
...need to look to the Constitution and the right to privacy,” she said, highlighting the government??s obligation to an individual’s dignity and autonomy. “It is not what is moral or immoral, but where the government should interject itself...
...where the mayor and head of the school board (leftist Democrats themselves) have said it is badly needed. Beyond the city councils and school boards, where voucher programs should be debated, outside interest groups have ignored the downtrodden and taken the issue of D.C. vouchers to the federal government??and to court, in other instances, using the language of a racist and regrettable...
...addition to its internal flaws, the new legislation could wreak external havoc by undermining the federal government??s already floundering fiscal solvency. With no provisions in the bill to raise any new revenue to pay for this very substantial new expenditure, Congress has effectively mortgaged the future livelihoods of today’s young people. By avoiding responsibility now, the Republicans have ensured that huge tax increases will eventually be necessary to pay the debts the president said he would not pass on “to other Congresses, to other presidents and other generations...
...cases before the court involve the legality of the United States’ creation of an extrajudicial system in Cuba. U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson provided the main tenets of the government??s position in the Rasul case. According to his brief, the prisoners should not be considered prisoners of war. This argument is dubious at best. These prisoners—most allegedly linked in some way to Taliban forces—ought to be classified as POWs and afforded the rights called for by the Geneva Convention...