Bill Kristol isn’t impressed by Walter Dellinger’s defense (in today’s Washington Post) of Elena Kagan’s course of conduct on the Solomon Amendment:

What’s striking here is Dellinger’s throwing under the bus “the anti-military and anti-ROTC policies favored by some campus leftists in the 1970s.” But these policies weren’t just favored by a few flakes in the 1970s. They are in place on major campuses today–at Harvard, for example, where ROTC is denied official recognition.
So: If Dellinger is now opposed to such anti-military and anti-ROTC policies, I assume he’ll use his considerable prestige to weigh in against them. If Kagan agrees with Dellinger that anti-ROTC policies on campus are indefensible, then I assume she’ll say so at her hearings. Indeed, perhaps it will even turn out she spoke against them as Dean of Harvard Law School, since her deanship coincided with a period of considerable controversy about them at Harvard. Or perhaps she didn’t.