POLSCI 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antonin Scalia, Equal Protection Clause

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 111
• Professor: Kenneth Kollman

Document Summary

Income, age, location or type of residence (within limits) Bakke: 1970s, strict scrutiny for california university admissions for giving special consideration for minorities. You are permitted under law school admissions to consider race as one factor (among many) to make school diverse. This was not allowed in undergraduate admissions which used a mathematical equation to determine admission, and minorities were given extra points in the equation. Argued that there were other means of getting diversity 2003. Recognition by court of changing public opinion on homosexuality. Privacy of couples to make reproductive decisions do not apply here. Bowers case: state laws against sodomy is still legal because it comes with a basket of crimes. Lawrence: individual decisions concerning intimacies of physical relationships are a form of "liberty". Scalia"s biting dissent let the state legislatures and the people figure it out; majority disagreed with scalia.