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Last Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will review the Solomon Amendment, which was recently declared unconstitutional by a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Solomon Amendment, which was signed into law by President Clinton in 1994, requires universities receiving federal funding to allow military recruiters on campus, even in spite of potential conflict with universities anti-discriminatory policies. The law has been contested by both sides over the last decade, including a 2003 congressional movement that required schools to give military recruiters equal access to the students, and the 2004 appeal that declared the law unconstitutional...
...Solomon Amendment has primarily affected law schools around the country, as the military has put significant effort into recruiting future lawyers. Harvard Law School requires all recruiters to sign a non-discrimination pledge to participate in on-campus activities, yet the military has refused to sign the pledge due to its explicit discrimination against the employment of homosexuals. Currently, their Dont ask, dont tell policy prohibits openly gay individuals from serving in the military. Given the explicit contradiction with Harvards anti-discrimination policies, the military has no right to recruit on campus...
...through the entire conversation without once mentioning “3rd Rock from the Sun.” While I avoided the topic to prove that I was no more plebian, it also seems that Lithgow just doesn’t reflect about his time as Dr. Dick Solomon anymore...
Since both the Third Circuit ruling in the FAIR case and the Bridgeport judge’s decision in the Yale dispute deemed the Solomon Amendment unconstitutional, some experts had said the justices might wait to weigh in on the issue until a conflict arose among the lower courts...
...Supreme Court was uncertain as to whether the Solomon Amendment was unconstitutional, they might have been more willing to postpone review until other circuits considered that question,” said Howard J. Bashman, a Pennsylvania attorney and appellate law expert...