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Harvard law school against it. but i think the point is whether or not "dont ask dont tell" is immoral. the point is, is it discriminatory? and the american association of law schools has a policy saying those employees who discriminate -- employers who discriminate in their recruitment and hiring practices should not be allowed to recruit on law school campuses. hes correct that she did not deny them access to harvard or even to harvard law school. recruiters could be there in the exact same ro...

Science research, they used the solomon amendment to bully in order to force a second class citizenship right and then demand equal access to equal hiring practices. >> i think theres a political aspect to this. this narrative that barack obama doesnt like the military. barack obama is anti-military, not involved emotionally in this war against terrorism. he somehow does the job but hes not a real cop out there or have the attitude you want in this front against terrorism. theyre going to use it...

The elite law schools but not the state universities which have law schools as well. >> it included the state universities as well. in fact, the american association of law schools has a requirement for accreditation that schools follow the policy of nondiscrimination. so the only schools in the united states that did not exclude the military were those that had religious reasons for not doing so. all of the law schools who were accredited did have that policy. nothing unusual about harvard. >> ...

In the mid-1990s. it allows the department of defense to withhold funds from any university or college that does not allow the military to use the schools career services office to recruit students. in 2002, after 9/11, the bush administration started vigorously enforcing that rule at colleges across the country, many law schools openly opposed allowing military recruiters full access to campus, among them harvard law schools dean, elena kagan. >> reporter: harvard law schools anti-discriminatio...

Order, kind of up there were holocaust, and she then i think when she was overturned, overwhelmingly, even by the justice shes going to be replacing, by the way, a the amicus brief that she filed in this case, it turned out -- it turned out that she wasnt going to quit her job over it. she wasnt going to actually do more than posture on this. so, we dont have much to go on. its kind of like barack obamas law school record. we dont have much to go on there, too, and we need to get to the bottom o...

They were never, never, at her time prevented from going to the law school or being on scam pus. i think thats the first thing to keep in mind. >> using the facility. they were supposed to use under the solomon amendment. >> okay, for six months, only six months while the third -- she didnt do the third circuit court of appeal, but she joined with other law school deans in supporting it. >> well, the argument was the u.s. military did not have the same rights and privileges of recruiting on camp...

Raise the issues that here is somebody who doesnt have the guts to even write down opinions over 20-year period and on top of that, shes from harvard and she has so out of touch with middle america that she refused to let the milton campus to do recruiting. there is someone out of touch with middle america. i think that will hurt obama. >> the argument was that because of the dont ask, dont tell policy the discrimination against gays serving openly in the u.s. military, the law schools had no ch...

>> correct me if im wrong. the elite law schools but not the state universities which have law schools as well. >> it included the state universities as well. in fact, the american association of law schools has a requirement for accreditation that schools follow the policy of nondiscrimination. so the only schools in the united states that did not exclude the military were those that had religious reasons for not doing so. all of the law schools who were accredited did have that policy. nothing...

That those employers who discriminate in their recruitment and hiring practices should not be allowed to recruit on law school campuses. now hes exactly correct that she did not deny them access to harvard or even to harvard law school. in fact, recruiters could be there in the exact same room. but under the sponsorship of the veterans association, rather than under the sponsorship of the career services placement. now i think an apology is in order. but i think the apology should come from the ...

A professor of law, a catholic school is that you cant bring people on campus that arent open to hiring all students. whether you agree with that policy or not, its controversial because of this. the solomon amendment said if you take federal funds, you have to admit everybody from the federal government that wants to hire your students. the solomon amendment was declared unconstitutional from the moment it came into effect by a federal judge in newark, new jersey and that was upheld by an appel...