America's Supreme Court should send a message to the world that it takes seriously the words of its constitution, which affords "equal protection of the laws" to all its people.
Republican supporters of the legislation said it was being misinterpreted as an anti-abortion measure, The intent, they say, is to afford equal protection to unborn children in existing law.
The Court repudiated the long held notion that "it would be unthinkable that the same Constitution would impose a lesser duty on the Federal Government" than it does on a State to afford equal protection of the laws, Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. 497, 500, by holding that congressionally mandated "benign" racial classifications need only satisfy intermediate scrutiny.
"Initially the thinking behind Dublin was that all EU states could afford equal protection to asylum seekers, but that was met by a very different reality.
The United Association of Civil Guards (AUGC), which has 30,000 members, has launched a campaign demanding the nationwide police service affords equal protection to male and female officers.
Its rhetoric of Islam's long tolerance of minorities often sounds condescending to Egypt's Christian minority, which wants to be afforded equal citizenship, not special protections.
And while her strategy may occasionally and serendipitously produce good outcomes, as in Big Cypress, the wider public interest would be much better served by a policy that affords all these lands equal protection.
Frosh's office issued its opinion last month after five state lawmakers asked whether setting bail, without considering whether a defendant can afford to pay, violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment.
That distinction, Mr. Abrams argues, violates the protections afforded to commercial speech as well as rights to equal protection.
The diversity of result in the two classes of cases is supposed to show that equal protection of the laws was not afforded to the unsuccessful litigants.
