This question, required by Turner in certain capital cases, demonstrates the inapplicability of traditional
equal protection analysis to a jury voir dire seeking an impartial jury.
I'm not getting into the whole
equal protection analysis.
Not exact matches
But the animus
analysis reaches the same result, for a class is allegedly picked out and bullied in violation of the
equal protection clause; whether the class is entitled to special judicial
protection doesn't matter if the legislators or voters can be ascertained to have a suspect motive.
Should the Supreme Court rule that disparate impact
analysis violates the
Equal Protection clause, OCR's attempts to micromanage school discipline and finance should come to a quick close.
If a teacher sues on the basis that a policy unconstitutionally denies them «substantive due process» or
equal protection, a judge will consider their complaint under what's known as a «rational basis
analysis,» meaning the judge will look to see if the policy can be shown to have any kind of rational relation to a legitimate government issue.
Being a circuit court opinion, it goes into far more depth on the
analyses of
equal protection and due process, which is worth reading.
Book 3 of Volume 49 contains the
analysis of Jennifer M. Smith covering
equal protection and access to civil justice.
1; Redish, Preferential Law School Admissions and the
Equal Protection Clause: An
Analysis of the Competing Arguments, 22 UCLA L.Rev.
Just extend the full benefits of
equal protection laws to gays in terms of a protected class
analysis and then you prevent discrimination, ban peremptory strikes based on sexual orientation, and allow for Batson challenges when it appears that being gay was the reason for the strike.