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Freshman representatives of the United States Congress received advice from longtime legislators about how to navigate a bitterly divided Capitol Hill yesterday morning during the Kennedy School of Government??s biennial conference for newly elected members of Congress...
Monday’s federal appeals court ruling declaring the controversial Solomon Amendment unconstitutional is a victory for free speech. The government??s coercion of universities, forcing them to tolerate discrimination of bisexual, gay, and lesbians students on their campuses, was an egregious abuse of power. This ruling is a welcome rebuke to the Pentagon’s extortion-style approach to side-stepping non-discrimination policies on private campuses nationwide...
...Amendment—threatened to withhold several hundred million dollars worth of federal funding unless HLS granted military recruiters an exemption from the non-discrimination policy. Harvard acquiesced and amended its code, this fall allowing military recruiters on campus for the first time in a quarter century despite the government??s explicitly discriminatory “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...so—Harvard sent a clear message that it deemed its nondiscrimination policy and its queer students unworthy of defending. To be sure, Summers has publicly condemned the military’s discrimination, but his words were regretfully empty. Those who would argue that complacently capitulating to the government??s demands is somehow politically neutral ignore the unmistakable message Harvard sent by choosing to defy the wishes of its Faculty. That message was reprehensible...
...Third Circuit to re-hear arguments in the case, and Bashman said the court would likely be sympathetic to the request. Alternatively, the government could appeal the Third Circuit ruling directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Even if the Third Circuit and the Supreme Court do not accept the government??s appeal, the ruling would not go into effect for at least seven weeks “as a matter of course,” Bashman said...