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Article: Queer brinksmanship: citizenship and the Solomon wars.(campus military recruiting and homosexuals)(Solomon Amendment)
- Article from:
- The Yale Law Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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In 1994, Congress passed a law commonly known as the Solomon Amendment, threatening universities and law schools with loss of federal funding if they deny or effectively prevent military recruiters from accessing campuses and directory information about students. (1) It was the opening salvo in what has become a voluble expressive battle between the military and law schools. This fall, under cover of war, the Department of Defense (DOD) (2) attempted to bring a decisive end to the conflict. Helping themselves to millions of dollars of ammunition from the coffers of their fellow agencies--with ambiguous authority at best--the military successfully forced Judge Advocate ...