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Schuette, Facial Neutrality And The Constitution, Mark Strasser
Schuette, Facial Neutrality And The Constitution, Mark Strasser
Mark Strasser
Equal protection jurisprudence continues to evolve. The Court’s recent decision in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action expressly disavows that it is modifying the existing equal protection jurisprudence, while nonetheless employing an approach that had previously been rejected in a few different respects. As to whether the Court has radically altered the existing equal protection jurisprudence in any of these respects sub silentio or, instead, has simply suspended the accepted constitutional rules in this particular case, this remains to be seen.
This article discusses the developing equal protection jurisprudence with respect to racial classifications, and then focuses on Schuette …