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Speakers at the rally assailed the Solomon Amendment, which was signed into law by President Clinton in 1996 and empowers the Pentagon to cut off federal funding for universities that restrict military recruiters’ access to students. Faced with a Pentagon threat to block hundreds of millions of dollars...
Friday’s rally came less than a week after both houses of Congress passed legislation strengthening the provisions of the Solomon Amendment.
The brief noted that the original wording of the Solomon Amendment only barred funding to schools that “prohibit” or “in effect prevent” military recruitment on campus. The professors argued that the law did not require Harvard to actively assist recruitment...
Kagan was one of 54 Harvard Law School faculty members who signed a friend-of-the-court brief in January backing the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a nationwide network of 20 law schools suing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and five other Bush cabinet members to halt...
The professors’ brief argued that the school had been in compliance with the Solomon Amendment even prior to Harvard’s 2002 decision to waive its nondiscrimination policy for military recruiters. Before then, the Harvard Law School Veterans Association organized meetings between students and Pentagon officials, but...