March 17, 2006

Excerpts From Supreme Court Ruling on Military Recruiters on Campuses

Following are excerpts from the Supreme Court's ruling in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic Rights, in which the justices ruled 8-0 that colleges must open their campuses to military recruiters if they wish to receive federal funds. The opinion was written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

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The Solomon Amendment denies federal funding to an institution of higher education that "has a policy or practice ... that either prohibits, or in effect prevents"

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