Report: Supreme Court to Decide on Hearing Suit Declaring All-Male Draft Discriminatory
District of Columbia | May 31, 2021
The Supreme Court will likely decide this week whether to hear a petition challenging whether an all-male draft instituted in 1981 remains legally sound after the Department of Defense in 2013 lifted the ban on women serving in combat roles, reports CNN.
A men’s rights organization, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, argues that the federal requirement that men register for the Selective Service “is unlawful sex discrimination” and that the requirement “has no legitimate purpose and cannot withstand the exacting scrutiny sex-based laws require.”..
(Excerpts from Newsmax)