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Greenfield is the president of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of 38 law schools and law faculties that filed suit against the Pentagon to halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment. Harvard is not a member of the coalition, but the University did sign a friend-of-the-court brief in September backing FAIR...
...Alito applied the same standard to the Solomon Amendment case, he might back FAIR’s arguments, Greenfield said...
FAIR has asserted that the financial burdens imposed by the Solomon Amendment undermine law schools’ rights to express their disapproval of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...Connor has already left her post before the court decides the FAIR lawsuit—and if Alito does not vote on the case—then FAIR would only need four justices’ votes to uphold a federal appellate panel’s decision overturning the Solomon Amendment last year...
...appellate lawyer Howard J. Bashman, who filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the Bush administration’s military recruitment policy is indeed constitutional, predicted that at least seven justices would vote to uphold the Solomon Amendment. In a phone interview with The Crimson this week, he stood by that forecast. “I don’t think it’s going to be that close of a vote,” Bashman said...