Posted on 09/19/2007 4:35:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Yale Law to allow military recruiters
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press Writer 40 minutes ago
Yale Law School will end its policy of not working with military recruiters following a court ruling this week that jeopardized about $300 million in federal funding, school officials said Wednesday.
Yale and other universities had objected to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that allows gay men and women to serve in the military only if they keep their sexual orientation to themselves. Yale Law School had refused to assist military recruiters because the Pentagon wouldn't sign a nondiscrimination pledge.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Yale on Monday, rejecting its argument that its right to academic freedom was infringed by federal law that says universities must give the military the same access as other job recruiters or forfeit federal money.
"The fact is we have been forced under enormous pressure to acquiescence in a policy that we believe is deeply offensive and harmful to our students," said Robert Burt, a Yale law professor who was lead plaintiff in the case.
The funding loss would have devastated the university's medical research into cancer, heart disease and other illnesses, Burt said.
Yale Law Dean Harold Koh said in a news release Wednesday that he was disappointed by the appeals court decision, saying the school has an obligation to "ameliorate the impact" of discriminatory hiring practices.
"We intend to meet this obligation and will work alongside our students to identify the best ways of doing so, in accordance with the law," Koh said. "We continue to look forward to the day when all members of our community will have an equal opportunity to serve in our nation's armed forces."
Koh did not immediately respond to calls seeking additional comment.
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Looks like the libs have sold their soul to the devil... Again!
can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.
don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
you get the gyst.
“Yale Law Dean Harold Koh said in a news release Wednesday that he was disappointed by the appeals court decision, saying the school has an obligation to “ameliorate the impact” of discriminatory hiring practices”
This guy is the Dean??
ROTFLOL!
The fact is, Mr. Law Professor, you've had your day in court and lost.
Get over it.
"The fact is we have been forced under enormous pressure to acquiescence to a political party that we believe is deeply offensive and harmful to our country," said Old Sarge, a combat veteran and repsected contributor to Freerepublic.com.
How in the hell did this clown even have standing to bring this case? There isn't sufficient privity between a law student and his professor to justify third party standing!
My law school shunted the military JAG recruiters to the Student Union. I don't recall them doing that to any other law firms.
*respected, with spectacles...
I suspect its Ivy League trained military lawyers prosecuting Marines and others for the so called “war crimes” of Iraq and Afghanistan. They get indoctrinated in that hard core left wing teaching at Yale, etc and cant shake it when they get to the real world.
Huh? Nobody is forcing Yale to do anything. Yale can choose to give up the $300 million in federal funding.
“Yale to do anything. Yale can choose to give up the $300 million in federal funding.”
Yep. They really stand firm on their principles, don’t they? LOL!
It was rejected simply because it is convoluted doublespeak that says nothing at all except:
"We want to do what we want to do, shove it in the face of Americans, and force American taxpayers to pay the bill for it, no matter what they think about it."
sorry, that isn’t any point of law that I’m aware of.
Next they will want a "nondiscrimination pledge" for people who have sex with (name an object). The commies can barely hide their military/industrial complex for all of their ridiculously illogical and bogus reasoning.
“Yale Law School had refused to assist military recruiters because the Pentagon wouldn’t sign a nondiscrimination pledge”
Yale = WHORE
Principles are hard. Whoring is easy.
It’s right to academic freedom?!? I sure don’t remember that one in the Bill of Rights.
Sure. Look in # 9 and # 10.
Didn't you hear? We now have an all new interpretable Bill of Rights...courtesy of the borg.
Well, they could have walked away from the $300 million and kept the military off campus. So, somewhere between $1 and $300 million, the Yale administration is willing to trade in their beliefs for the almighty dollar. So much for the liberals value system.
Congress has the power under the Constitution to raise an army; it thereby has the power to DRAFT ALL OF THOSE LAW STUDENTS INTO THE ARMED FORCES.
If it has that power, it certainly has the power to compel the campus to accept recruiters to INVITE persons into the armed forces.
(Anybody at that school know Constitutional Law?)
Good.
Now, we just need to force the government to withold funds from states, counties, cities and towns who refuse to enforce immigration laws.
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