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Historical Meaning Behind ‘Equal Protection of the Laws’

“No State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws – not of its laws, but of the laws.” –Rep. John A. Bingham (December 20, 1870) Justice Scalia speaking of the Fourteenth Amendments Equal Protection Clause to students at UC Hastings College of the Law in September 2010 remarked, [...]

Supreme Fraud: Plyler v. Doe

I do not think there is any other single Supreme Court case in which I am asked to comment on more than the case of Plyler v. Doe – especially now with more press attention being devoted to school overcrowding and the costs associated with teaching non-bona fide resident children belonging to citizens of other [...]