JUSTICE BREYER: Can I make that statement in an opinion, and you’ll say, that’s right?
MR. CLEMENT: I think what you could say —
JUSTICE BREYER: Can I say that?
MR. CLEMENT: I don’t think you can say just that.
Classifications treated as suspect tend to be irrelevant to any proper legislative goal.
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We reject the claim that “illegal aliens” are a “suspect class.
The acts of Congress give great power … It is a power to be administered, not arbitrarily and secretly, but fairly and openly, under the restraints of the tradition and principles of free government applicable where the fundamental rights of men are involved, regardless of their origin or race. It is the province of the courts, in proceedings for review, within the limits amply defined in the cases cited, to prevent abuse of this extraordinary power …
Kwock Jan Fat v. White
253 U.S. 454, 464, 40 S. Ct. 566, 570, 64 L. Ed. 1010 (1920)
“Though no one would ever think of using the term honor violence (we reserve that descriptor for brown people who live somewhere else, motivated by religious...”