Posted on 02/25/2019 1:52:12 PM PST by rarestia
If women can serve in combat in the military, they should be eligible for the draft.
That's the ruling from a U.S. District Court judge in Texas, who ruled late Friday that male-only registration for Selective Service was unconstitutional.
The decision overturns a 1981 Supreme Court ruling, Rostker v. Goldberg, which said women did not have to register for a military draft because they weren't "simularly situated" as men. At the time, women could not serve in combat.
In 2013, however, the Dept. of Defense lifted its ban on women in combat, and Judge Gray Miller said that meant men and women were now "simularly situated."
The lawsuit was brought on by a group called the National Coalition for Men, which sued the Selective Service System, an independent federal agency.
The Military Selective Service Act requires all men, ages 18-25, to provide basic personal information to the Selective Service System, so that if a draft is instituted they may be called up. They are supposed to register within 30 days of their 18th birthday.
The act includes male U.S. citizens and male immigrant non-citizens.
A Selective Service Act has been in existence in the United States since 1917, with various updates since then. The last time the draft was instituted was during the Vietnam War. President Gerald Ford eliminated the registration requirement in 1975, but President Jimmy Carter reinstituted the registration requirement in 1980 after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
Since then there have been efforts in Congress to abolish the Selective Service System, and also to expand it to women.
Congress commissioned the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service to study the issue. An interim report showed many men may not even realize what they've registered for, because it's part of getting a driver's license or applying for financial aid. A final report will be issued next March.
The judge has not issued any injunction to stop the selective service.
I don’t think a District Judge can overturn a Supreme Court ruling.
-PJ
A stupid ruling in a series of stupid rulings.
I noticed that too.
>>I don’t think a District Judge can overturn a Supreme Court ruling.<<
I think you are right.
We are living in a world gone mad. That’s what happens when the populace turns away from God.
Like that's gonna happen.
Amen!!
The smarties laughed at opponents of the so-called “Equal Rights Amendment” in the 70’s and 80’s who said the amendment was for the purpose of putting women in foxholes, forcing perversion of marriage, and forcing unisex bathrooms.
With this ruling it can be stated with gas-tight certainty that opponents of the ERA were correct in every detail.
Fortunately the ERA was defeated. Unfortunately the smarties have done work-arounds to implement their perverted agendas.
Still, defeating the ERA did add at least 40 years to the life of our Republic - two generations.
Stupid.
Finally!
It’ll work its way up the chain.
No, I do not want to see women in Combat. Heck. I don’t like having our men get maimed in body and soul for other countries!
The Feminists/Liberals/Progressives and Ignorant Conservatives have made this bed and it’s about time someone had to sleep in it.
It will really get interesting, especially if the SCOTUS eventually rules that women are suitable for the Draft.
You’ll start seeing women trying to get pregnant to get out of Armed Service. It’s against the UCMJ (if I recall correctly) for *anyone* to damage/alter their body so as to avoid deployment. Yes, it will make for interesting times.
I agree that woman, to be equal under the law, should have to register for selective service now that women are ‘similarly situated’. However, I also find it to be an unfortunate end state for our society to reach.
JoMa
He did not overturn the SC. He simply made a ruling on a new argument. It is up to the SC to determine if the Judge is in error. Which could take years. And is another fine example of why being “ruled” by disassociated judges is a constitutional crisis itself.
See, fight that big, long battle to stop the ERA, and THIS happens.
IMO the draft was already dead anyway.
Congress is NEVER going to have the stones to actually start pulling numbers again. This current Selective Service sham is just a huge waste of time and money. Just paying bureaucrats to manage a giant mailing list.
Reagan had run on a promise to abolish it and I wish he would have kept that promise. Since it’s a sham it really doesn’t matter to me if they make women go down to the post office and fill out cards.
I saw this. This is so funny. Women must now register and be drafted. It is the law of the land.
So is the draft.
Ya mean I coulda reversed some decision. DANG!!
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