The Legally Ignorant want to know:
Does this mean strict scrutiny is up a creek without a paddle?
For some reason I have this hierarchy stuck in my head: rational basis on the bottom, intermediate scrutiny in the middle, and strict on top. The quotes:
Quote:
Illinois had to provide us with more than merely a rational basis...
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and
Quote:
...our analysis is not
based on degrees of scrutiny...
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suggest to my uninformed brain that strict scrutiny is getting no love.
Nonetheless, seems like a victory to me, and victory == Good Thing