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Don’t conscript women into combat

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Don’t conscript women into combat

A federal district judge presumed last Friday to overturn U.S. Supreme Court precedent on a long-dormant topic — the military draft.

The judge, an appointee of George W. Bush, ruled that the current requirement that only men and not women register for the draft at age 18 through the Selective Service system is not “substantially related to Congress’s objective of raising and supporting armies.”

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