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The 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.
Kagan’s decision came after a panel of judges from the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-to-1 that the 1996 statute is unconstitutional because it violates law schools’ First Amendment right to express their opposition to discrimination against gays and lesbians...
Guinier later told The Crimson that ratification of such an amendment was not paramount in her mind.
Speaking at Boston’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast on Monday, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier called for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing all United States citizens, including convicted felons, the right to vote.
To correct for these discrepancies, Guinier endorsed a constitutional amendment to provide a federally granted right to vote to all U.S. citizens. Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., D.-Ill., is presently advocating such an amendment in the House of Representatives.