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...government’s move is the latest development in a year-and-a-half-long legal battle over the 1996 Solomon Amendment, under which the Pentagon can block federal funding to universities that limit military recruiters’ access to students...
...decision, Bush administration lawyers said that the Supreme Court is “highly likely” to review the Third Circuit’s ruling—with a “serious possibility” that the justices will uphold the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment...
Other challenges to the Solomon Amendment, including lawsuits filed by students and professors at Yale and University of Pennsylvania, are slowly crawling through the district courts. A member of FAIR’s legal team, Sharon Frase of the firm Heller Ehrman, said the Supreme Court may wait for rulings in the other cases before acting on the Bush administration’s appeal...
This was not the last time Harvard was to suffer for Summers’ alleged doggedness. Despite heavy protestations from faculty, alums and students, Summers refused to add Harvard to a long list of law school plaintiffs challenging the shameful Solomon Amendment. Passed in 1996, the law allowed the federal government to withhold funding from institutions that denied the military on-campus recruiting. Harvard, like other schools, had declared the military’s anti-gay stance out of step with its internal non-discrimination policy. When Washington threatened to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from Harvard...
This was not the last time Harvard was to suffer for Summers’ alleged doggedness. Despite heavy protestations from faculty, alums and students, Summers refused to add Harvard to a long list of law school plaintiffs challenging the shameful Solomon Amendment. Passed in 1996, the law allowed the federal government to withhold funding from institutions that denied the military on-campus recruiting. Harvard, like other schools, had declared the military’s anti-gay stance out of step with its internal non-discrimination policy. When Washington threatened to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from Harvard...