WASHINGTON -- The highest Court said Monday that Congres isn't trampling independent speech by threatening to withhold federal funding from universities that kick military recruiters not upon campus because the Pentagon's "don't ask.

WASHINGTON -- The highest Court said Monday that Congres isn't trampling independent speech by threatening to withhold federal funding from universities that kick military recruiters not upon campus because the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy forward gays conflicts with the schools' anti-discrimination practices.

In a unanimous ruling, the justices said Congres isn't stopping the universities from protesting the policy, nor is it asking the sects to endorse the policy from granting military recruiters the same access they give other employer

Congress' Solomon Amendment solely seeks to regulate what universities "must do -- afford equal access to military recruiters -- not what they may or may not say," Chief Justice John G Roberts wrote for the court.

The ruling is a big boost to the military and a bloom to 36 law schools that joined forces to fight what they'd described as overreaching by dint of Congress. The schools will