反对S.386、反亚裔细分和宪法修正案第十四条Equal Protection

我们不需要reconcile，政客需要reconcile。对，就是那些支持AA又支持S386的政客，到底还是拿金主的钱给金主办事。

Kamala Harris公开支持AA，同时又是S386的cosponsor。政客都不要reconcile他们矛盾的政治理念，为什么我们要？

况且我们并不矛盾，反对不解决问题反而制造问题的恶法，这是从反AA到反S386的核心。

接下来谈谈14th Amendment & 5th Amendment (以下简称14A、5A)。

Constitution amendments 又叫做Bill of Rights。因为founding fathers在宪法原文(Art. VI, Section 1, Clause 2) 里写了“[t]his Constitution (…) shall be the supreme Law of the Land“，写在宪法里的权利是水火不侵的“金刚不坏身”。而这个Equal Protection就源自Bill of Rights 14A。摘录一下原文：

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.

最后半句 “nor [shall any State] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” 就是“Equal Protection”的确切出处。目前为止，Equal Protection 这一宪法权利衍生出了一系列的判例，涉及的社会议题包括slavery, social or economic classifications, gender, sexual orientation, aliens and the poor, 还有今天的主题race。

在谈Race Equal Protection precedents之前，先大致讲讲一个概念叫做Standards of Review。 比喻一下Standards of Review就像大法官们在裁决案件的时候戴的滤镜。这滤镜有三种型号：Rational Basis Review (RBR), Intermediate Scrutiny (IS), Strict Scrutiny (SS)。RBR这款滤镜用一句歌词形容一下就是“睁一只眼～～哦闭一只眼～～”，一款高糊滤镜，每天爱各州法律一百遍。SS 则是一款实验室级别显微镜，戴上这款滤镜的大法官们开启nitpicking高虐模式，每天吹毛求疵挑刺各州法律一百遍。知名度很高的大法官Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG, the notorious)曾在一个1995年的AA案子中提议SS should be “FATAL for classifications burdening groups that have suffered discrimination (…)。” Fatal，也就是说SS can be a state law killer！在这一端海水一端火焰的中间就是IS。IS没有官方定义，很多时候都是用RBR、SS两款滤镜都不合适的时候，大法官们就说那我们的滤镜就是IS。