Posted on 03/06/2006 7:12:47 AM PST by Leofl
Good, consistent ruling.
federal funds includes student loans and grants... no way the college is going to give that up.
Just curious when Ann will apologize, without providing justification, for her prior statements on Roberts and G.W.B.'s decision...
Seems Roberts is doing well at the role he was given. To attempt to bring consensus back to the Courts, in line with the Constitution/law. THIS is why he was made CJ over Thomas or Alito, and why HE was chosen rather than other outspoken conservative favorites like Brown.
Certainly we still need one or two more Justices, but I truly doubt this result had Roberts/Alito not been on the court. Maybe this would have been the final ruling, maybe not, but 8-0? Highly unlikely.
Not to say the most "controversial" decisions will take this route, I'm not that naive. Kennedy is a wild card and the rest of the Liberals are entrenched in their world views. Still, this is a significant victory more so in that we had no dissents.
BTW, for folks wanting outcome based oriented results? Too bad. We've campaigned on wanting results adherring to the Constitution even if it doesn't favor our personal beliefs all the time. Bottom line is that if you take Fed money you are beholden to them. No one has to take that money. If they don't want military recruiters, stop taking the money. And if you don't want a pet liberal policy advanced in your school, don't take the money. Pretty simple.
Agreed, think of Title 9 affirmative action sports.
I haven't read the decision, but I'd guess that a lot of the the precedents are *very* liberal-oriented.
over the weekend it was reported that Yale U officials said about recruiting the Taliban ..."we lost one already to Harvard and we'll not let that happen again...."
I would like to know what was the name of the terrorist recruited by Harvard...
The Law Schools focus their anger on the wrong entity.
Until 1993, the anti-gay ban was just DOD POLICY, that could have been undone with the ink of a pen by the Prez (Clinton) or the Secy of Defense.
But the cowardly, draft dodger, Clinton, had no credibility with the generals, so he dared not rescind the POLICY. Instead, he had the Democrat Congress pass the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) LAW.
The military, being bound by LAWS, has to obey. It has no choice.
So, the "military policy" against gays cited by the Law Schools is no such thing. The gay ban is a LAW passed by a Dem Congress and signed by a Dem President. If the military recruiters disobey it, they get court-martialed.
The Law Schools ought to be picketing Clinton, and the Democrat Members of Congress that passed it if they don't like the policy.
And the news outlets oughta be more precise. DADT is not "military policy," it is federal LAW.
What's with a BC law professor arguing against a DOD policy that is similar to the policy at BC? Why doesn't he present his argument to the crowd at the BC/BYU football game next Fall? Is this the same idiot that wanted BC to drop football a few years ago?
Nice!
The only direction we can go in now is forward, which is why groups like Students For Academic Freedom, Campus-Watch, The FIRE, and sites like Critical Mass, noindoctrination.org, etc., are so critical to this nation's future.
The people that control liberal arts universities today espouse an ideology that is completely divorced from liberalism as it's been traditionally defined.
These people aren't liberals, they're fascists masquerading as free-thinkers.
Alito did not participate since he wasn't on the bench when it was argued.
I understand that; the inference I got was that Alito would not vote with the more conservativwe members once he was voting, hence fewer 8-0 rulings, and that is what I was questioning.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2148083
Looking over the thread, it looks like most of the posters over there agree with this decision, too. (On the basis that the federal government should be allowed to put restrictions on people receiving federal money.)
THE most important line of the entire opinion, and one that I hope is pre-cursor of many more to come:
That is a judgment for Congress, not the courts.
This says it all.
Once Alito starts voting, who would drop out to allow 8-0 rulings to continue?
I'd add to that group the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) who are challenging the limits imposed by the prevailing liberal administrations of most large universities in this country.
The YAF students are the ones holding affirmative action bake-sales, and conservative coming out events, mocking the underlying philosophy of the elders of the hippie generation now in control of higher education.
And I love FIRE, who has put the fear of legal action and negative publicity into these administration elites who seek to suppress and ostracize any spark of conservative activism on campus.
It is a comforting thought to me that as these ageing leftover hippies from the 1960's and 70's who dominate acedemia in higher education today naturally age out of the system, they will eventually be replaced by Reagan and Rush babies.
"You may find states who accept highway money being forced to build mass transit or else."
You're close. Try "you may find states who have their gas federally taxed to 'build highways' find that their money goes instead to fund mass transit in other states, and that they get back less than they put in after the federal skim."
It sure would be nice if a single person here recognized that this is all about schools--public schools, in states, mind you--accepting FEDERAL money. Which has not thing one to do with Constitutional government, under which states could run their own schools as they damn well pleased and would get nothing from the feds at all.
It's funny, I've met one prof who was openly conservative and he happened to be a math professor. I had him for stats and not only loved him as a teacher but for ones found a math that I absolutely loved.
Actually, it's fairly easy to be an open conservative in disciplines where a lot of the faculty are emigres from former Communist countries. The leftists pipe down and you have supportive colleagues--they recognize the stench of the left instinctively.
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