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Rule, 2-1, questioning the constitutionality of the statute, you immediately, the very next day, changed the policy at harvard and barred the military from the office of career services, the equal access the solomon amendment had required, is that correct? >> senator sessions, after the third circuit ruled the solomon amendment unconstitutional and the third circuit was the only appellate court to have issued a decision on that question and did rule the solomon amendment unconstitutional, i thought it appropriate at that point to go back to what had been the school's long standing policy which...

It now. we were trying to do two things, make sure military recruit hearse full and complete access to our students and also protect our own anti-discrimination policy and protect the students whom it is -- whom the policy is supposed to protect which in this case were our gay and lesbian students and we tried do both of those things. >> well, you couldn't do both, as it became clear, as time went on. in fact, there was a protest on campus the next year and you participated in that protest and spoke out saying "i'm very opposed to two government policies that directly violet our policy of nond...

Inartfully. you take the fourth amendment and say there is unreasonable searches and seizures that provision remains the same unless it is amended. that's the provision. then the question is what counts as an unreasonable search and seizure and new cases come before the court and the court tries to think about -- to the extent one can glean any meaning from the text itself, from the original intent, from the precedence, from the history, from the principles embedded in precedent and the court sort of step-by-step by step, one case at a time, figures out what the fourth -- how the fourth amendm...

But after the third circuit rule, 2-1, questioning the constitutionality of the statute, you immediately, the very next day, changed the policy at harvard and barred the military from the office of career services, the equal access the solomon amendment had required. is that correct? >> senator sessions, after the third circuit ruled the solomon amend unconstitutional and the third circuit was the only appellate court to have issued a decision on that question and did rule the solomon amendment unconstitutional, i thought it appropriate at that point to go back to what had been the school's lo...