Occasionally, random things come across my desk. This morning, this was the random thing waiting for me when I got to the office. It's an interview by a legal blog with Supreme Court Justice (and resident "activist judge," to use the parlance of the hypocrites on the right) Antonin Scalia, in which Scalia pontificates on the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. For those not able to identify all the amendments off the top of their head, that's the one that, among other things, says this:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Got that? No state is permitted to deny to any person the equal protection of the laws. And what does Scalia take that to mean?