promote diversity by creating opportunities for people of both sexes. that was my pitch. as you know, it didn t work. the opinion of the court in virginia against the united states will be announced by justice ginsburg. some women can meet the physical standards vmi imposes on men, are capable of all the activities required of vmi cadets, and would want to attend vmi if they had the chance. this opinion does mark as presumptively invalid a law that denies to women equal opportunity to inspire, achieve, participate in, and contribute to society based on what they can do. the men only tradition of vmi became history with the arrival of women entering as first year
the president issues an executive order that is in conflict with the constitution, the constitution must prevail. vmi was a 150-year-old all-male military college. it had a tremendous endowment, well-connected alumni, four-star generals. when you came out of vmi, that was something. the virginia military institute was the last all-male state supported school in the country. 157 years of school tradition as an all-male military academy. boys can be troublesome, full of hormones and so forth.
you cannot say categorically they can t handle this. it s way beyond vmi. way beyond. and she pulled some of the justices of that court over to see that you start, you start with an assumption that you have got to treat both genders equally. n verizon. yep, just got it. nice. great, problem solved. i have the acoustic version of this. stay at la quinta. where we re changing with stylish make-overs. then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. bravo, tall meeting man. start winning today. book now at lq.com
i don t mean to make general gender characteristics or generalizations here. but for some young men at that time of their life they need discipline. and vmi provided that. stand before you, they represent the essence of vmi! a female high school student wanted to attend vmi. so she brought a case against virginia claiming that the all-male admissions policy violated equal protection. it actually went from the district court to the appellate court before it came up to the supreme court. this was an extremely important case for justice ginsburg. it was her first women s rights case on the supreme court. the chief justice and the associate justices of the supreme court of the united states. i was very much aware of justice ginsburg s history with respect to gender, excluding
women from an institution. i was very much aware of that. and i was trying to fashion an argument that would penetrate that. mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, educators are virtually united that many young men and young women significantly benefit from a single-sex education. the curiosity is that you are defending single-sex education when virginia abandoned single-sex education in all schools but one. the there are a number of women s schools in virginia that chose themselves to go to co-education because of the demands that occurred demands from whom? the trends that were away from single-sex education. i was dealing with a very worthy and formidable force at the other side of that bench. to clarify, you are defending vmi for all males and no public program for women. the effort by virginia is to