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Student Debt Relief Bad, Bigotry Good

Strict Scrutiny

CHAPTER

The Court's Distinguishment Between Status and Message

LZ Granderson: We don't actually know whether Laurie Smith would make this website if it was actually a straight man married to a woman asking for it. LZ: Justice Sotomayor of course calls out the majority's distinction between status and message as embarrassing, which it is. He says that petitioners contrivance that a prohibition on status based discrimination can be avoided by asserting that a group can always buy services on behalf of others is "embarrassing" Geregrants reporting suggests that this case may involve the sole instance that we know of.

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