The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that Congress was within its authority to withhold federal funding from law schools that discriminate against military recruiters. That's a stunning defeat for a case brought by "progressive" law professors backed by some gay student groups and other LGBT activists, all of whom thought private institutions could demand government funding without suffering government restrictions. (The gist of the matter was, superficially, that the military discriminates against gays; the more pertinent matter was liberal academia's hostility toward all things military.)
Not only was this fight terrible PR for the cause of gays in the military (aligning the gay struggle with a hodge-podge of leftie military haters), but even the most liberal Justices found the argument without merit. In fact, if the anti-militarists had prevailed, it would have called into question the government's ability to insist that (as of now) those that receive federal funding don't discriminate based on race, and (let's hope in the future) that they don't discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
Sometimes, you have to wonder what "progressives" are thinking (giving them the benefit of the doubt that they're thinking at all).
More. I've revised the above to clarify that
left-leaning law professors brought the actual suit.
Here, George Will opines on how "The institutional vanity and
intellectual slovenliness of America's campus-based intelligentsia
have made academia more peripheral to civic life than at any time
since the 19th century."