For over a century, Congress's power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of -the equal protection of the laws- has presented judges and scholars with a puzzle. What does it mean for Congress to -enforce- such a wide-ranging, open-ended provision when the Supreme Court has insisted on its own superiority in interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment? In Enforcing the Equal Protection Clause, William D. Araiza offers a unique understanding of Congress's enforcement power and its relationship to the Court's claim to supremacy when interpreting the Constitution. Drawing on the...
For over a century, Congress's power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of -the equal protection of the laws- has presented judges and sc...
