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Harvard law professors who oppose on-campus military recruitment—and their allies at other schools, including Yale and Duke—still say they stand a chance of winning a favorable verdict from the high court in the Solomon Amendment case...
...against gay applicants. But the military has refused to sign the pledge. A brief submitted to the high court in September by the former acting solicitor general, Walter E. Dellinger III, and 40 Harvard professors contends that the law schools’ policies don’t violate the Solomon Amendment’s “equal access” provision because all recruiters—not just the military—face the same nondiscrimination requirement...
...this statutory argument suffered a severe blow before the high court Tuesday when the lead lawyer for the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), the nationwide network of law schools that is challenging the Solomon Amendment’s constitutionality, directly contradicted the Harvard professors’ claims...
...Killing Iraqis is no career, recruiters aren’t welcome here!” marched in a circle outside the Armed Forces Career Center in downtown Boston yesterday afternoon, in a demonstration timed to coincide with the first day of Supreme Court hearings on the Solomon Amendment. At one point nearly 60 demonstrators, including a group of high school students from Wellesley, Mass. and members of the “Raging Grannies” organization, joined in shouting anti-recruitment and anti-war slogans. The Solomon Amendment is a Congressional statute that allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds...
WASHINGTON—Amid the heated debate surrounding a key military recruitment case argued before the Supreme Court, a small but fiery group of protesters braved the frigid winter weather here yesterday to voice their opinions on the Solomon Amendment. On a sidewalk adjacent to the icy steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, activists from a political hodgepodge of advocacy groups congregated 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. But over the course of the morning and afternoon, groups of protesters never...