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They were never, never, at her time prevented from going to the law school or being on scam pus. i think that's 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 didn't 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 campus that law firms would have or goldman sachs would have or other private organizations. >> okay, ...

Raise the issues that here is somebody who doesn't have the guts to even write down opinions over 20-year period and on top of that, she's 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 don't ask, don't tell policy the discrimination against gays serving openly in the u.s. military, the law schools had no choice. >> well, no choice, certainly they had a choice. she is president. she could have made tha...

>> correct me if i'm 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 unusual about harvard. >> professor, as you know though, once that issue went before the supreme c...

That those employers who discriminate in their recruitment and hiring practices should not be allowed to recruit on law school campuses. now he's 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 u.s. military. who using the solomon amendment, was bullying an institution like harvard and other ...

A professor of law, a catholic school is that you can't bring people on campus that aren't open to hiring all students. whether you agree with that policy or not, it's 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 appellate court in philadelphia and then reversed by the supreme court so for the four years she kept ...