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After the Pentagon’s recent decision to enforce provisions of the Solomon Amendment, a 1994 law that empowers the federal government to withhold funding from schools that don’t allow military recruiters access to on-campus resources, Dean Elena Kagan of the Harvard Law School (HLS...
Therefore, the Solomon Amendment, which requires schools that receive federal funds to grant military recruiters “equal access” to students, is “the very condition which renders federal spending permissible,” the brief argues.
Eastman’s brief argues that the Solomon Amendment may in fact legitimate federal aid to Harvard and other schools. “When funding of higher education is restricted by the Solomon Amendment to institutions allowing military recruiters on campus, this overall program—or at least...
More than 20 other friend-of-the-court briefs have been filed in the Solomon Amendment case, including one from a group of seven elite universities including Harvard, and a second from a group of 40 Harvard Law School professors. Under a 26-year-old Law School policy, recruiters that...
A coalition of more than two dozen law schools—known as the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights—which sued the Bush administration in 2003 to halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment, argues that the statute violates schools’ free-speech and free-association rights...