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...sidewalk adjacent to the icy steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, activists from a political hodgepodge of advocacy groups congregated today to express their views on the Solomon Amendment, the statute at the center of the Rumsfeld v. FAIR case argued at the high court yesterday...
Later in the afternoon, a new wave of protesters flooded the exterior of the court in conjunction with the Campus Anti-War Network’s “National Day of Counter-Recruitment,” a multi-city demonstration organized to voice opposition to the Solomon Amendment and the Iraq war, according to the group’s website...
Upon arriving, the 40-person antiwar group clashed with an equally passionate throng of 15 Solomon Amendment supporters...
...Solomon demonstrator Allison Kasic said she found the resistance to the military painful because of the large number of friends she has in the armed services...
...statute in question, known as the Solomon Amendment, allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds from schools that deny the military “equal access” to their campuses. Harvard Law School and many of its peers require recruiters to sign a pledge stating that they will not discriminate against gays...