The Lesson is: Always Lie

The good gentlemen at PoweLine have posted a letter from a recent YLS graduate who provides an interesting perspective on the whole Solomon Amendment issue. The gist, as far as I can determine, is that a very large number of employers who recruit Yale Law students are not in compliance with the School's rather expansive non-discrimination policy (government employers give preference to veterans, many firms systematically discriminate against women in their partner-selection processes) but that they're able to recruit on campus with impunity because they fraudulently claim to be in compliance with the policy. The JAG Corps, then, is being punished for having the temerity to actually admit that it isn't in compliance. It's a valuable lesson: honesty is not always the best policy.