Groups urge Supreme Court to hear challenge to male-only military draft

The group is asking the justices to reconsider a 1981 decision that upheld the Military Selective Service Act under which men — but not women — are required to register for the draft. Key to the court’s ruling, which was decided by a court made up of all men, was its observation that “women as a group…unlike men as a group, are not eligible for combat.”That has changed in the decades since. David Cole of the American Civil Liberties Union,