More: I meant to kill this off earlier, as SCOTUS declined to take the case up, saying it should be taken up by the legislature, but, got busy explaining you can have the payment or the product.
3rd Wave Feminists should applaud this, as should all the Leftists who say there’s no difference between the (what they feel are 3,956) sexes
High court asked to review men-only draft registration law
The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether it’s sex discrimination for the government to require only men to register for the draft when they turn 18.
The question of whether it’s unconstitutional to require men but not women to register could be viewed as one with little practical impact. The last time there was a draft was during the Vietnam War, and the military has been all-volunteer since. But the registration requirement is one of the few remaining places where federal law treats men and women differently, and women’s groups are among those arguing that allowing it to stand is harmful.
The justices could say as soon as Monday whether they will hear a case involving the Military Selective Service Act, which requires men to register for the draft.
Ria Tabacco Mar, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project, who is urging the court to take up the issue, says requiring men to register imposes a “serious burden on men that’s not being imposed on women.â€
Men who do not register can lose eligibility for student loans and civil service jobs, and failing to register is also a felony punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and five years in prison. But Tabacco Mar says the male-only requirement does more than that.
“It’s also sending a tremendously harmful message that women are less fit than men to serve their country in this particular way and conversely that men are less fit than women to stay home as caregivers in the event of an armed conflict. We think those stereotypes demean both men and women,†she said.
Hmm, interesting that the ACLU is the one spearheading this. Why shouldn’t women be required to register for the draft (that will most likely never happen)? Of course, the Supreme Court would only be deciding the constitutionality. Congress would have to change the law.
The Biden administration is urging the justices not to take the case and to let Congress instead tackle the issue. Administration lawyers wrote in a brief that any “reconsideration of the constitutionality of the male-only registration requirement … would be premature at this time†because Congress is “actively considering†the issue.
Congress is? Since when? Congress seems to be jammed up with Democrats trying to pass their extreme Leftist agenda and Republicans looking to stop them.
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