Monday, March 06, 2006
Supreme Court Decides for Solomon
I think this as a great decision. Even though the lawyers at PowerLine felt it was a slam dunk case, it still sends a resounding and important message. Read the details and links at Power Line: A FAIR decision:
"The Supreme Court, in the case of Rumsfeld v. FAIR, has unanimously reversed the Third Circuit's ruling that the Solomon Amendment is unconstitutional. The Third Circuit had held that requiring colleges and universities to treat military recruiters like all other employer-recruiters as a condition of receiving federal funds violates the First Amendment. By an 8-0 vote, the Supreme Court disagreed. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the opinion. Justice Alito did not participate. There were no concurring opinions.
...... We should also congratulate our friend Dean Polsby of George Mason University Law School, who filed an outstanding amicus brief supporting the government's position. ......
Dean Polsby had this to say to Power Line about the decision:
"This is really a stinging rebuke, not only to FAIR but to an entire industry that has become complacent and self-indulgent. Many law professors really do believe, with the late Justice Brennan, that their own strongly-held policy preferences are all encoded somehow in the Constitution. This is a timely reminder that it just isn’t so.""
Dean Polsby's comment is on target. Let's hope for more changes in other anti-government university policies or a else a simple refusal to take tax dollars. In particular, it should be a wake-up call to the guild of language professors who feel entittled to take federal funds intended to create a body of linguists for national security needs while obstructing students from pursuing those needs.
"The Supreme Court, in the case of Rumsfeld v. FAIR, has unanimously reversed the Third Circuit's ruling that the Solomon Amendment is unconstitutional. The Third Circuit had held that requiring colleges and universities to treat military recruiters like all other employer-recruiters as a condition of receiving federal funds violates the First Amendment. By an 8-0 vote, the Supreme Court disagreed. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the opinion. Justice Alito did not participate. There were no concurring opinions.
...... We should also congratulate our friend Dean Polsby of George Mason University Law School, who filed an outstanding amicus brief supporting the government's position. ......
Dean Polsby had this to say to Power Line about the decision:
"This is really a stinging rebuke, not only to FAIR but to an entire industry that has become complacent and self-indulgent. Many law professors really do believe, with the late Justice Brennan, that their own strongly-held policy preferences are all encoded somehow in the Constitution. This is a timely reminder that it just isn’t so.""
Dean Polsby's comment is on target. Let's hope for more changes in other anti-government university policies or a else a simple refusal to take tax dollars. In particular, it should be a wake-up call to the guild of language professors who feel entittled to take federal funds intended to create a body of linguists for national security needs while obstructing students from pursuing those needs.
