The Solomon Amendment is law which allows the government to ban federal funding for schools which do not allow military recuiters on campus. The Supreme Court will hear from law schools throughout the nation this week on whether the federal government an withhold funds from law schools which refuse to allow military recruiters on campus.

Several law schools (mine included) are parties to the lawsuit, Rumsfeld v. FAIR.  The schools, members of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), have a policy against allowing recuirters who discriminate based on sexual orientation to recruit on campus.  The United States military, with its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, is one such recruiter.  The AALS has reluctantly carved out an exception, finding that law schools which allow the military to recruit on-campus do not violate the anti-discrimination policy.

The case is not, as some would think, an anti-discrimination case, but rather a free speech case.  Refusing to allow the military to recuit on -campus because of its discriminatory policy is an act of free speech, of protest really, against that policy.  The Solomon Amendment, the law schools claim, infringes on that speech.  You can read more about the implications of the case here.

The Third Circuit, in considering the case, reasoned that what's good for the boy scouts is good for the law schools: