From Erosion to Evisceration - Skremetti’s Narrowing of Sex-Based Protection under Equal Protection
Purvis, Dara
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2025-06-24
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Last week, the Supreme Court decided the case United States v. Skrmetti. As Ryan Thoreson has argued on this blog, the Court’s opinion rolls back existing understandings of sex discrimination in ways that will likely play out in future cases. Building on that insight, I examine how the Court narrows what counts as sex discrimination and strips the concept of stereotypes of its constitutional force. The most troubling aspects of the decision, however, appear in concurrences written by the ultraconservative members of the Court, which confine the reach of equal protection to formal legal classifications alone.
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Purvis, Dara
Equality
USA. Supreme Court
anti-discrimination
gender and sex discrimination
gender equality
transgender rights
USA. Supreme Court
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