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ninja sends us this article from The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n A federal appeals court in New Orleans overturned a lower court ruling that the male-only draft is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n From the article;<\/p>\n A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that requiring only men to register for the military draft is constitutional.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court ruled in 1981 that women could be excluded from registering since combat jobs were closed to them.<\/p>\n Combat jobs have since been opened to women, but the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said Thursday it cannot reverse the Supreme Court’s precedent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The title of The Hill’s article (and mine by extension) are a tad misleading though. The appeals court actually didn’t rule on the merits of changing the draft. They found that, since it was a SCOTUS decision, lower courts don’t have the standing to change that precedent.<\/p>\n \u201cThe factual underpinning of the controlling Supreme Court decision has changed, but that does not grant a court of appeals license to disregard or overrule that precedent,\u201d the three-judge panel ruled, adding that \u201conly the Supreme Court may overrule its precedents.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It’s all probably moot anyway. We’ve been fighting two wars for nigh on 20 years now\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>several other peacekeeping, foreign assistance, and low intensity conflicts mixed in for good measure on an entirely volunteer force. Absent Canada finally invading, we’re unlikely to see a draft any time soon. The way things are going, they’ll be drafting my laptop before they draft my kids.<\/p>\n Congress has also pledged to revisit the issue, but I won’t hold my breath on that.<\/p>\n Source; The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n Thanks again, ninja!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"