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(2,167 posts)WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether its sex discrimination for the government to require only men to register for the draft when they turn 18.
The question of whether its unconstitutional to require men but not women to register could be viewed as one with little practical impact. The last time there was a draft was during the Vietnam War, and the military has been all-volunteer since. But the registration requirement is one of the few remaining places where federal law treats men and women differently, and womens groups are among those arguing that allowing it to stand is harmful.
Just last year, a congressional commission concluded that the time is right to extend the obligation to register to women. The current disparate treatment of women unacceptably excludes women from a fundamental civic obligation and reinforces gender stereotypes about the role of women, undermining national security, the commission said in a report.
The Biden administration is urging the justices not to take the case and to let Congress instead tackle the issue. Administration lawyers wrote in a brief that any reconsideration of the constitutionality of the male-only registration requirement ... would be premature at this time because Congress is actively considering the issue.
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