Breaking: Military recruiters get big win in SCOTUS decision

Cross posted on Pajamas Media.

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously, yes, unanimously this morning that colleges and universities that accept federal funds must allow military recruiters on campus, AP is reporting.

FAIR, The Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, was formed in response to the 1995 Solomon Amendment and revised versions of that law that allowed the federal government to withhold federal funds from the Department of Defense and other agencies for universities and colleges that ban the military from recruiting there. FAIR sued, and the case the Supreme Court ruled on was FAIR vs. Rumsfeld.

Universities began banning military recruiters in large numbers in the mid 1990s, in response to the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy of the military regarding homosexuals in the armed forces.

A list of law schools who were willing to be publicly acknowledged as part of FAIR is here.

And wouldn't you know, DePaul University is one of them. Marathon Pundit has dozens of posts on the misadventures of DePaul, to learn more, type "DePaul" in the search engine box on top of this blog.

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