The preferences did not violate the Constitution, the judge, Hiram H. Ward ruled, because there was a rational reason for them — they generated "monetary support for the university".
But the government can make you pay for broccoli if there is a rational reason to do so.
Crazy though it seems to schedule so many design fests at more or less the same time, there is a rational reason for doing so.
"[The] court seems to rely on the long debunked theory of parental alienation as a rational reason for the detention, perpetuating the terrible myth that children should not be believed when they come forward having witnessed abuse".
As part of their campaign of concealment, Halbig's promoters have tried to post a rational reason for Congress to write into the ACA the seeds of its own destruction, by barring tax credits for buyers of insurance on the federally facilitated insurance exchanges.
Complex ranked her as the ninth "most diabolical video game she-villain" in 2011, describing her as "the exact type of woman that you wouldn't marry for any rational reason".
These young women are paranoid for a really rational reason.
And in some cases, if an interviewer is looking for an apparently rational reason to discriminate between you and another person of equivalent qualifications, it may unfairly count against you.
"The exclusion of a minority for no rational reason is a dangerous precedent," he said in his ruling.
Yeah, a lot of people who know nothing about me hate me for no rational reason but a lot of people who know nothing about me love and admire me, also for no rational reason.
The Doma case took on a stark example of the federal government discriminating against a minority group for no rational reason, and the court rightly decided that such discrimination was unconstitutional.
