rumsfeld secretary defense et al forum academic institutional rights et argued december decided march respondent forum academic institutional rights fair association law schools law faculties whose members policies opposing discrimination based inter alia sexual orientation like restrict military recruiting campuses object government policy homosexuals military solomon amendment provides educational institutions denying military recruiters access equal provided recruiters lose certain federal funds forces choose enforcing nondiscrimination policy military recruiters continuing receive funds fair sought preliminary injunction enforcement earlier version solomon amendment arguing forced inclusion equal treatment military recruiters violated members first amendment freedoms speech association denying relief ground fair established likelihood success merits district concluded recruiting conduct speech thus congress regulate expressive aspect military conduct district however questioned department defense dod interpretation solomon amendment law schools must provide recruiters access least equal provided recruiters congress responded concern codifying dod policy reversing district judgment third circuit concluded amended solomon amendment violates unconstitutional conditions doctrine forcing law school choose surrendering first amendment rights losing federal funding university think applied nonetheless determined activities expressive conduct rather speech solomon amendment also unconstitutional decision held congress require law schools provide equal access military recruiters without violating schools freedoms speech association third circuit erred holding solomon amendment likely violates first amendment pp solomon amendment read way government fair interpret order law school university receive federal funding law school must offer military recruiters access campus students provides nonmilitary recruiter receiving favorable access contrary argument amici law professors school excluding military recruiters comply solomon amendment also excluding recruiter violates nondiscrimination policy secretary defense must compare military access campuses students access campuses students provided employer statute focus content school recruiting policy result achieved policy applying policy recruiters comply statute results greater level access recruiters military interpretation supported text statute necessary give effect solomon amendment recent revision pp solomon amendment university must allow equal access military recruiters order receive certain federal funds although limits congress ability condition receipt funds see american library funding condition unconstitutional constitutionally imposed directly first amendment prevent congress directly imposing solomon amendment access requirement statute place unconstitutional condition receipt federal funds pp general matter solomon amendment regulates conduct speech nevertheless appeals concluded statute violates law schools freedom speech number ways first law schools must provide military recruiters assistance clearly involving speech sending distributing flyers provide services recruiters speech subject first amendment scrutiny compelled speech plainly incidental statute regulation conduct compelling law school sends recruiters send one military recruiter simply forcing student pledge allegiance flag west virginia bd ed barnette forcing jehovah witness display particular motto license plate wooley maynard trivializes freedom protected barnette wooley suggest second military recruiters extent speaking campus mean solomon amendment unconstitutionally requires laws schools accommodate military message including recruiters interviews recruiting receptions found violations complaining speaker message affected speech forced accommodate see hurley gay lesbian bisexual group boston however schools speaking host interviews recruiting receptions facilitate recruiting assist students obtaining jobs thus law school recruiting services lack expressive quality example parade hurley nothing recruiting suggests law schools agree speech recruiters nothing solomon amendment restricts may say military policies third freedom speech violated expressive conduct expressive nature conduct regulated solomon amendment bring conduct within first amendment protection unlike flag burning see texas johnson conduct inherently expressive warrants protection adoption solomon amendment requirement law schools expressed disagreement military treating military recruiters differently recruiters actions expressive conduct speech accompanied conduct moreover even solomon amendment regarded regulating expressive conduct constitutional pp solomon amendment also violate law schools freedom expressive association unlike boy scouts america dale boy scouts freedom expressive association violated state law required organization accept homosexual scoutmaster statute force law school accept members desire law schools associate military recruiters sense interact recruiters part school outsiders come onto campus limited purpose trying hire students become members school expressive association freedom expressive association protects group membership decisions reaching activities affect group ability express message making group membership less attractive solomon amendment similar effect law school associational rights students faculty free associate voice disapproval military message nothing statute affects composition group making membership less desirable pp reversed remanded roberts delivered opinion members joined except alito took part consideration decision case donald rumsfeld secretary defense et petitioners forum academic institutional rights et al writ certiorari appeals third circuit march chief justice roberts delivered opinion law schools began restricting access military recruiters students disagreement government policy homosexuals military congress responded enacting solomon amendment see supp provision specifies part institution higher education denies military recruiters access equal provided recruiters entire institution lose certain federal funds law schools responded suing alleging solomon amendment infringed first amendment freedoms speech association district disagreed reversed divided panel appeals third circuit ordered district enter preliminary injunction enforcement solomon amendment granted certiorari respondent forum academic institutional rights fair association law schools law faculties app declared mission promote academic freedom support educational institutions opposing discrimination vindicate rights institutions higher education fair members adopted policies expressing opposition discrimination based among factors sexual orientation like restrict military recruiting campuses object policy congress adopted respect homosexuals military see solomon amendment however forces institutions choose enforcing nondiscrimination policy military recruiters way continuing receive specified federal funding fair sought preliminary injunction enforcement solomon amendment time since amended prevented department defense dod providing specified federal funds institution higher education either prohibits effect prevents military recruiters gaining entry campuses fair considered dod interpretation provision particularly objectionable although statute required entry campuses government terrorist attacks september adopted informal policy ing universities provide military recruiters access students equal quality scope provided recruiters supp nj prior adoption policy law schools sought promote nondiscrimination policies still complying solomon amendment military recruiters interview undergraduate campus equal access policy military recruiters permitted interview law schools recruiters fair argued forced inclusion equal treatment military recruiters violated law schools first amendment freedoms speech association according fair solomon amendment unconstitutional forced law schools choose exercising first amendment right decide whether disseminate accommodate military recruiter message ensuring availability federal funding universities district denied preliminary injunction ground fair failed establish likelihood success merits first amendment claims district held inclusion unwanted periodic visitor significantly affect law schools ability express particular message viewpoint district based decision large part determination recruiting conduct speech concluding expressive aspect recruiting entirely ancillary dominant economic purpose district held congress regulate expressive aspect conduct test set forth supp rejecting fair constitutional claims district disagreed dod proposed interpretation statute requires law schools military recruiters access students least equal quality scope access provided potential employers response district concerns congress codified dod informal policy see pt discussing district decision case stating amended statute address opinion codify equal access standard solomon amendment prevents institution receiving certain federal funding prohibits military recruiters gaining access campuses access students campuses purposes military recruiting manner least equal quality scope access campuses students provided employer supp fair appealed district judgment arguing recently amended solomon amendment unconstitutional reasons earlier version divided panel appeals third circuit agreed according third circuit solomon amendment violated unconstitutional conditions doctrine forced law school choose surrendering first amendment rights losing federal funding university unlike district appeals think analysis applied solomon amendment view regulated speech simply expressive conduct third circuit nonetheless determined regulated activities properly treated expressive conduct rather speech solomon amendment also unconstitutional result appeals reversed remanded district enter preliminary injunction enforcement solomon amendment dissenting judge applied affirmed granted certiorari ii solomon amendment denies federal funding institution higher education policy practice either prohibits effect prevents military gaining access campuses access students campuses purposes military recruiting manner least equal quality scope access campuses students provided employer supp statute provides exception institution longstanding policy pacifism based historical religious affiliation government fair agree statute requires order law school university receive federal funding law school must offer military recruiters access campus students provides nonmilitary recruiter receiving favorable access certain law professors participating amici however argue government fair misinterpret statute see brief william alford et al amici curiae brief columbia law school faculty members amici curiae according amici solomon amendment requirement satisfied institution applies military recruiters policy applies recruiters reading school excluding military recruiters comply solomon amendment long also excluded employer violates nondiscrimination policy reply brief government claims question neither included questions presented raised fair reply brief review may discretion encompass questions within question presented yee escondido little doubt granting certiorari determine whether statute constitutional fairly includes question statute says must accept interpretation statute simply agreed parties ur task construe congress enacted duncan walker think appropriate present case consider whether institutions comply solomon amendment applying general nondiscrimination policy exclude military recruiters conclude government fair correctly interpret solomon amendment statute requires secretary defense compare military access campuses access students access campuses students provided employer emphasis added statute call inquiry employer secured access amici reading military recruiter access campuses students say law firm law firm permitted campus interview students military think military recruiter received equal access situation regardless whether disparate treatment attributable military failure comply school nondiscrimination policy solomon amendment focus content school recruiting policy amici instead looks result achieved policy compares access provided military recruiters provided recruiters applying policy recruiters therefore insufficient comply statute results greater level access recruiters military law schools must ensure recruiting policy operates way military recruiters given access students least equal provided employer emphasis added text support view interpretation necessary give effect solomon amendment recent revision prior version statute required entry without specifying military recruiters treated campus district thought dod policy required equal access students recruiters campus unwarranted based text statute supp congress responded directly decision codifying dod policy amici interpretation legislative change effect law schools still restrict military access long generally applicable nondiscrimination policy worse yet legislative change made easier schools keep military recruiters altogether prior version simple access denied amended version access denied altogether long nonmilitary recruiter also denied access rather clearly congress mind codifying dod policy refuse interpret solomon amendment way negates recent revision indeed render largely meaningless exercise therefore read solomon amendment way government fair interpret insufficient law school treat military treats employers violate nondiscrimination policy statute military recruiters must given access recruiters comply policy iii constitution grants congress power provide common defence raise support armies provide maintain navy art cls congress power area broad sweeping fact legislation raises armies subject first amendment constraints mean ignore purpose legislation determining constitutionality recognized rostker judicial deference apogee congress legislates authority raise support armies although congress broad authority legislate matters military recruiting nonetheless chose secure campus access military recruiters indirectly spending clause power solomon amendment gives universities choice either allow military recruiters access students afforded recruiter forgo certain federal funds congress decision proceed indirectly reduce deference given congress area military affairs congress choice promote goal creating funding condition deserves least deferential treatment congress imposed mandate universities congress power regulate military recruiting solomon amendment arguably greater universities free decline federal funds grove city college bell rejected private college claim conditioning federal funds compliance title ix education amendments violated first amendment thought argument warrant ed brief consideration congress free attach reasonable unambiguous conditions federal financial assistance educational institutions obligated accept concluded first amendment violation occurred without reviewing substance first amendment claims grove city decline government funds decisions however recognize limit congress ability place conditions receipt funds recently held government may deny benefit person basis infringes constitutionally protected freedom speech even entitlement benefit american library quoting board wabaunsee cty umbehr internal quotation marks omitted principle known unconstitutional conditions doctrine solomon amendment unconstitutional congress directly require universities provide military recruiters equal access students case require us determine condition placed university funding goes beyond reasonable choice offered grove city becomes unconstitutional condition clear funding condition unconstitutional constitutionally imposed directly see speiser randall first amendment prevent congress directly imposing solomon amendment access requirement statute place unconstitutional condition receipt federal funds solomon amendment neither limits law schools may say requires say anything law schools remain free statute express whatever views may military congressionally mandated employment policy retaining eligibility federal funds see tr oral arg solicitor general acknowledging law schools put signs bulletin board next door engage speech help organize student protests general matter solomon amendment regulates conduct speech affects law schools must afford equal access military recruiters may may say nevertheless third circuit concluded solomon amendment violates law schools freedom speech number ways first assisting military recruiters law schools provide services sending distributing flyers clearly involve speech appeals held supplying services law schools unconstitutionally compelled speak government message second military recruiters extent speaking campus appeals held forcing law schools permit military campus express message solomon amendment unconstitutionally requires law schools host accommodate military speech third although appeals thought solomon amendment regulated speech held alternative statute regulates conduct conduct expressive regulating unconstitutionally infringes law schools right engage expressive conduct consider issue leading first amendment precedents established principle freedom speech prohibits government telling people must say west virginia bd ed barnette held unconstitutional state law requiring schoolchildren recite pledge allegiance salute flag wooley maynard held unconstitutional another required new hampshire motorists display state motto live free die license plates solomon amendment require similar expression law schools nonetheless recruiting assistance provided schools often includes elements speech example schools may send post notices bulletin boards employer behalf see app brief nalp national association law placement et al amici curiae law schools offering services recruiters must also send post notices behalf military comply solomon amendment fair points compelled statements fact army recruiter meet interested students room like compelled statements opinion subject first amendment scrutiny see brief respondents citing riley national federation blind sort recruiting assistance however far cry compelled speech barnette wooley solomon amendment unlike laws issue cases dictate content speech compelled extent school provides speech recruiters nothing case approaching pledge motto school must endorse compelled speech law schools point plainly incidental solomon amendment regulation conduct never deemed abridgment freedom speech press make course conduct illegal merely conduct part initiated evidenced carried means language either spoken written printed giboney empire storage ice congress example prohibit employers discriminating hiring basis race fact require employer take sign reading white applicants hardly means law analyzed one regulating employer speech rather conduct see paul ords circumstances violate laws directed speech conduct compelling law school sends scheduling recruiters send one military recruiter simply forcing student pledge allegiance forcing jehovah witness display motto live free die trivializes freedom protected barnette wooley suggest cases limited situation individual must personally speak government message also number instances limited government ability force one speaker host accommodate another speaker message see hurley gay lesbian bisexual group boston state law require parade include group whose message parade organizer wish send pacific gas elec public util plurality opinion accord marshall concurring judgment state agency require utility company include newsletter billing envelope miami herald publishing tornillo statute violates editors right determine content newspapers relying precedents third circuit concluded solomon amendment unconstitutionally compels law schools accommodate military message requiring schools include military recruiters interviews recruiting receptions schools arrange violation prior cases however resulted fact complaining speaker message affected speech forced accommodate expressive nature parade central holding hurley parades form expression motion inherent expressiveness marching make point explains cases involving protest marches concluded every participating unit affects message conveyed parade private organizers law dictating particular group must included parade alter expressive content th parade result held state public accommodation law applied private parade violates fundamental rule protection first amendment speaker autonomy choose content message violations tornillo pacific gas also resulted interference speaker desired message tornillo recognized compelled printing reply tak es space devoted material newspaper may preferred print therefore concluded statute infringed newspaper editors freedom speech altering message paper wished express true pacific gas utility company regularly included newsletter concluded protected speech billing envelope thus state agency ordered utility send newsletter four times year interfered utility ability communicate message newsletter plurality likened situation tornillo held forced inclusion newsletter interfered utility message case accommodating military message affect law schools speech schools speaking host interviews recruiting receptions unlike parade organizer choice parade contingents law school decision allow recruiters campus inherently expressive law schools facilitate recruiting assist students obtaining jobs law school recruiting services lack expressive quality parade newsletter editorial page newspaper accommodation military recruiter message compelled speech accommodation sufficiently interfere message school schools respond treat military nonmilitary recruiters alike order comply solomon amendment viewed sending message see nothing wrong military policies rejected similar argument pruneyard shopping center robins case upheld state law requiring shopping center owner allow certain expressive activities others property explained little likelihood views engaging expressive activities identified owner remained free disassociate views compelled affirm belief governmentally prescribed position view true nothing recruiting suggests law schools agree speech recruiters nothing solomon amendment restricts law schools may say military policies held high school students appreciate difference speech school sponsors speech school permits legally required pursuant equal access policy board ed westside community schools dist mergens plurality opinion accord marshall concurring judgment see also rosenberger rector visitors univ attribution concern plausible fear surely students lost ability time get law school rejected view solomon amendment impermissibly regulates speech must still consider whether expressive nature conduct regulated statute brings conduct within first amendment protection recognized forms deserving first amendment protection example applied held burning american flag sufficiently expressive warrant first amendment protection unlike flag burning conduct regulated solomon amendment inherently expressive prior adoption solomon amendment requirement law schools expressed disagreement military treating military recruiters differently recruiters actions expressive law schools accompanied conduct speech explaining example point requiring military interviews conducted undergraduate campus overwhelmingly apparent johnson supra observer sees military recruiters interviewing away law school way knowing whether law school expressing disapproval military law school interview rooms full military recruiters decided reasons rather interview someplace else expressive component law school actions created conduct speech accompanies fact explanatory speech necessary strong evidence conduct issue inherently expressive warrants protection combining speech conduct enough create expressive conduct regulated party always transform conduct speech simply talking instance individual announces intends express disapproval internal revenue service refusing pay income taxes apply determine whether tax code violates first amendment neither progeny supports result although third circuit also concluded apply held alternative solomon amendment pass muster government failed produce evidence establishing solomon amendment necessary effective appeals surmised military ample resources recruit alternative means suggesting loan repayment programs television radio advertisements result government according third circuit failed establish statute burden speech greater essential furthering interest military recruiting disagree appeals reasoning result held incidental burden speech greater essential therefore permissible long neutral regulation promotes substantial government interest achieved less effectively absent regulation albertini solomon amendment clearly satisfies requirement military recruiting promotes substantial government interest raising supporting armed forces objective achieved less effectively military forced recruit less favorable terms employers appeals proposed alternative methods recruiting beside point issue whether means raising army providing navy might adequate see regulations invalid simply imaginable alternative might less burdensome speech judgment congress courts see art cls rostker suffices means chosen congress add effectiveness military recruitment accordingly even solomon amendment regarded regulating expressive conduct violate first amendment solomon amendment violate law schools freedom speech first amendment protection extends beyond right speak recognized first amendment right associate purpose speaking termed right expressive association see boy scouts america dale reason extended first amendment protection way clear right speak often exercised effectively combining one voice voices others see roberts jaycees government free restrict individuals ability join together speak essentially silence views first amendment intended protect ibid fair argues solomon amendment violates law schools freedom expressive association according fair law schools ability express message discrimination basis sexual orientation wrong significantly affected presence military recruiters campus schools obligation assist relying heavily decision dale appeals agreed dale held boy scouts freedom expressive association violated new jersey public accommodations law required organization accept homosexual scoutmaster determining boy scouts expressive association forced inclusion dale significantly affect expression state interests justify intrusion concluded boy scout first amendment rights violated solomon amendment however similarly affect law school associational rights comply statute law schools must allow military recruiters campus assist whatever way school chooses assist employers law schools therefore associate military recruiters sense interact recruiters part law school recruiters definition outsiders come onto campus limited purpose trying hire students become members school expressive association distinction critical unlike public accommodations law dale solomon amendment force law school accept members desire quoting roberts supra law schools say allowing military recruiters equal access impairs expression requiring associate recruiters saying conduct undertaken expressive purposes make symbolic speech see supra speaker erect shield laws requiring access simply asserting mere association impair message fair correctly notes freedom expressive association protects group membership decisions example held laws unconstitutional require disclosure membership lists groups seeking anonymity brown socialist workers campaign comm ohio impose penalties withhold benefits based membership disfavored group healy james although laws directly interfere organization composition made group membership less attractive raising first amendment concerns affecting group ability express message solomon amendment similar effect law school associational rights students faculty free associate voice disapproval military message nothing statute affects composition group making group membership less desirable solomon amendment therefore violate law school first amendment rights military recruiter mere presence campus violate law school right associate regardless repugnant law school considers recruiter message case fair attempted stretch number first amendment doctrines well beyond sort activities doctrines protect law schools object treat military recruiters like recruiters regulation conduct violate first amendment extent solomon amendment incidentally affects expression law schools effort cast like schoolchildren barnette parade organizers hurley boy scouts dale plainly overstates expressive nature activity impact solomon amendment exaggerating reach first amendment precedents congress require law schools provide equal access military recruiters without violating schools freedoms speech association appeals erred holding solomon amendment likely violates first amendment therefore reverse judgment third circuit remand case proceedings consistent opinion ordered justice alito took part consideration decision case footnotes policy person generally may serve armed forces engaged homosexual acts stated homosexual married person sex respondents challenge policy litigation complaint named numerous plaintiffs well district concluded plaintiff standing bring suit supp nj appeals third circuit agreed district fair associational standing bring suit behalf members appeals determine whether plaintiffs standing presence one party standing sufficient satisfy article iii requirement ibid citing bowsher synar also agree fair standing similarly limit discussion fair federal funds covered solomon amendment specified supp include funding departments defense homeland security transportation labor health human services education central intelligence agency national nuclear security administration department energy funds provided student financial assistance covered loss funding applies particular school denying access universitywide appeals also held solomon amendment violated first amendment compelled law schools subsidize government speech putting demands law schools employees resources consider law schools assistance raise issue subsidizing government speech concept used cases see johanns livestock marketing accommodations law schools must provide military recruiters minimal monetary nature extended employers recruiting campus government johanns decided third circuit decision case noted previous cases involved subsidizing private speech held itizens may challenge compelled support private speech first amendment right fund government speech military recruiters speech clearly government speech