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...future of military recruiting at Harvard Law School hangs in the balance as the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in the high-profile Solomon Amendment case Tuesday morning...
...case you’ve tuned out three years of protests and press conferences on campus, here’s the issue in a nutshell: the Solomon Amendment, first passed by Congress in 1994, blocks federal funding for universities that limit military recruitment. It poses a dilemma for Harvard Law School, which requires all on-campus recruiters to sign a pledge saying they won’t discriminate against gays and lesbians. The military, which bars gays and lesbians from serving openly under its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
Harvard Law School has created a task force to recommend methods of ameliorating the effects of on-campus military recruitment on the school’s gay and lesbian population, leaders of a student group said yesterday.A committee of students will address the impact of the Solomon Amendment, which allows the Pentagon to bar federal funding to universities that hinder the military’s ability to recruit on campus.Jeffrey G. Paik ’03, co-president of Lambda—the Law School’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender student group—said the committee...
Fallon, Field, and Minow—along with 37 fellow Harvard Law professors—signed a friend-of-the-court brief in September arguing that the school can bar military recruiters from campus without violating the Solomon Amendment. By requiring the Pentagon to sign a nondiscrimination pledge, the Law School held the military to the same standard as other recruiters and therefore adhered to Congress’ “equal access” requirement, according to the brief...
...have any reason to believe that Judge Alito, once elevated to be Justice Alito, would be likely to accept a constitutional challenge to the Solomon Amendment,” Minow wrote in an e-mail. “The statutory interpretation argument offered in our amicus brief might be appealing to him...but if forced to bet, I’d bet against that prevailing, too,” she added...