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...hiring gay people?”“Yes, your honor,” Rosenkranz replied, directly contradicting the Harvard professors’ brief.Before that dramatic moment three-quarters of the way through oral arguments, the justices appeared sympathetic to the statutory claim.Justice Antonin Scalia pounced on the government??s top attorney, Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, after Clement said that the military “simply asks for what other employers receive.”Scalia, a 1960 graduate of Harvard Law School, retorted: “But these institutions, I gather, would not allow other...
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...
Justice Antonin Scalia pounced on the government??s top attorney, Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, after Clement said that the military “simply asks for what other employers receive...
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...
...have had quite enough, thank you, of the Undergraduate Council for one lifetime. Today, online voting finally begins in our student government??s presidential elections, and that means the end is nigh for the assault of campaigning we have lately suffered.For the last week, candidates have scurried about in blue blazers and ties, promising the world to anyone they happen across. Longer hours for Cambridge eateries, free coursepacks, bike lanes in the Yard and much more—offered up, with little chance that any of it will be accomplished.The reward for shmoozing and outlandishness has been...