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>A federal judge in Texas ruled February 22 that an all-male military draft violates the U.S. Constitution. In his decision, U.S. District Judge Gray Miller of the Southern District of Texas ruled in favor of a group calling itself the National Coalition for Men, which had challenged the military’s long-time tradition of a male-only draft, on the grounds that the practice violated the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection clause.

“This case balances on the tension between the constitutionally enshrined power of Congress to raise armies and the constitutional mandate that no person be denied the equal protection of the law,” wrote Miller in his nearly 20-page opinion. He added that “while historical restrictions on women in the military may have justified past discrimination, men and women are now ‘similarly situated for purposes of a draft or registration for a draft.’ If there ever was a time to discuss ‘the place of women in the Armed Services,’ that time has passed.”
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https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/31591-judge-rules-male-only-military-draft-unconstitutional