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brought to you by judicial attention a measured approach to

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studying the law classifications based on gender received what Alright

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here potential answers it's all about scrutiny here right Member

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race and sexual orientation and gender here we go After

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the state's ratified the fourteenth amendment the supreme court faced

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an onslaught of discrimination cases though they had teo discriminate

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on the basis of which cases merited the most attention

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Remember the fourteenth amendment guaranteed what's called equal protection a

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fancy way of saying hey all people should be treated

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the same under the law for example cases involving racial

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discrimination are treated with the highest level of scrutiny since

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the fourteenth amendment was originally intended guarantee recently freed slaves

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equal legal protection But what about gender equality Well actually

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it all came down to a case of beer literally

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in craig v boren the supreme court ruled that oklahoma

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couldn't have two different drinking ages for beer men at

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twenty one and women at eighteen because the court struck

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down the laws different classifications based on gender justices For

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the first time we're treating gender as a quays i

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suspect class Now race is considered a suspect class meaning

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that the court needs to give it an extra special

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attention though it receives top tier scrutiny As a quiz

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i suspect class That means classifications based on gender receive

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a You guessed it intermediate level of scrutiny And that

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makes me the correct answer The thing We scrutinize his 00:01:37.093 --> [endTime] question mike

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