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...Harvard professors’ brief could still sway the justices—even if FAIR doesn’t raise the point. The dean of George Mason University School of Law and a prominent Solomon Amendment supporter, Daniel D. Polsby, wrote in an e-mail, “I would not be surprised if the Dellinger brief came up at oral argument.” (The lead counsel on the Harvard faculty brief is actually a Duke University professor, Walter E. Dellinger III, who served as the Justice Department’s top lawyer before the high court under President...
Meanwhile, the government’s lawyers will contend that the Solomon Amendment is necessary “in order to recruit the most talented men and women into the armed services,” as they argued in a brief filed this past July...
...court historically has granted extra deference to the military. And according to Polsby, the stipulations of the Solomon Amendment are far less onerous than, say, the military draft...
...strategy and training. By contrast, a court of nine law school graduates is “perfectly competent” to decide whether the military needs campus access “in order to attract the attention of brilliant young lawyers.” FAIR will argue that the Solomon Amendment is unnecessary for that purpose...
...government lawyers could cite a friend-of-the-court brief filed by two former defense secretaries, four admirals, and 20 generals—including former presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark and two former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—testifying that the Solomon Amendment is “essential” to the military’s mission...