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...Pentagon??€”invoking a 1996 provision known as the Solomon Amendment—said that Harvard would lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding unless the Law School granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy...
...School, under then-Dean Robert C. Clark, bowed to the Pentagon??€™s threat. But Kagan and over 50 other Law School faculty members filed a friend-of-the-court brief this past January backing the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of over 20 law schools challenging the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment. Also that month, Lambda filed a separate brief endorsing the coalition...
...November, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland—a 1957 graduate of Harvard Law School—denied FAIR’s motion to overturn the Pentagon??€™s policy...
Until 2002, Harvard Law School insisted that the Office of the Judge-Advocate General (JAG), the Pentagon??€™s legal wing, could not use the school’s official recruiting resources unless the military signed the University’s nondiscrimination pledge...
Secretary Rumsfeld and President Bush must therefore accept part of the responsibility for what transpired at Abu Ghraib and for the Pentagon??€™s efforts to hide it from public view. Voters should hold Bush accountable in November. And in the meantime, for the good of America, its troops and its citizens, Rumsfeld should look for a different line of work...