greatest protection are not sacrosanct. Basically, the Supreme Court has set up a grading rubric. Certain things that we don’t care so much about get graded on a pass/fail basis. In other words, so long as the government can show what’s called a rational basis for a law restricting things that the court thinks aren’t that important, it’s good to go. (Setting the First Amendment aside, for the sake of example, a law that forces police officers to retire by age fifty gets rational basis review on the notion that we aren’t too worried about the government picking on people because of their
