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      "id": 313394,
      "date": "2006-03-20",
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      "title": "Military Recruiting and the Solomon Amendment: The Supreme Court Ruling in Rumsfeld v. FAIR",
      "summary": "In recent years, many academic institutions have enacted rules that protect homosexuals from\ndiscrimination on campus. As a result, colleges, universities, and even high schools have sought to\nbar military recruiters from their campuses and/or to eliminate Reserve Officer Training Corps\n(ROTC) programs on campus because of \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell,\u201d \nthe DOD policy excluding\nknown or admitted homosexuals from military service. At the same time, federal legislation has\nbeen enacted to prevent the government from funding higher educational institutions that block\nmilitary recruiters from campus. On March 6, 2006, the Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals\ncourt ruling in  Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR).  In so\ndoing, eight\nJustices upheld the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, which forbids most forms of\nfederal aid to higher educational institutions that deny military recruiters access to students equal\nto that provided other employers.",
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