Crossword Clues
Dental care is not covered by the Affordable Care Act due to political compromise. Neither is the eye doctor, also known as this. (15)
Ophthalmologist
In Parents Involved v. Seattle, schools sought to address racial disparities in education by implementing demographic quotas based on race. The Court rejected this, calling it nothing more than unconstitutional - RAY SHELL BAY LANCING
Racial Balancing
In his dissent in Parents Involved v. Seattle, Justice Breyer disagrees with [this Justice's] ‘color-blind’ approach to the Constitution.
Justice Thomas
In San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, the court held that the State's school-financing system did not violate this Clause.
Equal Protection Clause
Middle-income neighborhood children have 13 books per child as compared to 1 book per 300 children in low-income neighborhoods
True.
In Sarah Smarsh's "Poor Teeth", Smarsh opines that blatant sexism and racism are generally frowned upon in our society. However, this type of status-bias "generally goes unchecked". (8)
Classism
In Sebelius, the Court explained this provision of the ACA was meant to "prevent cost shifting" & "subsidize the costs of covering the unhealthy": IN DIVVY DUEL MANED HATE
Individual Mandate
In her Sebelius dissent, Justice Ginsburg says Congress could have taken over the health-insurance market by establishing a federal tax-and-spend program, like this one, that provides financial assistance to retired adults and people with disabilities.
Social Security
In arguing that Congress had the authority to pass the individual mandate portion of the ACA, the government suggested Congress's authority stemmed from several constitutional clauses. Name one.
Necessary and Proper Clause, Commerce Clause, or Tax and Spend Clause
The Equal Protection Clause does not require absolute equality or precisely equal advantages.
True
The majority in San Antonio v. Rodriguez wasn't convinced that education was a fundamental right. They held such arguments were this, also meaning not convincing (12)
Unpersuasive
The article, "Poverty Impedes Children's Education" suggests the lack of this inhibits the healthy development for low income children: YEW NERVE IS ALL TRIALED CLARE
Universal Childcare
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - make your wager!
"It was the promise of true racial equality —not as a matter of fine words on paper, but as a matter of everyday life in the Nation's cities and schools.” Name the dissenting Justice and the case.
The article "Why Law is a Determinant of Health" asserts this amendment "established the fundamental rights that shape many of the social and political conditions that ultimately influence health"
The Fourteenth Amendment: "the Fourteenth Amendment has been critical to reducing discrimination and inequality in both the social determinants of health and the accompanying structural determinants of health"
Cost of child care programs average $8,000 annually per child.
FALSE – costs averages $14,117 annually per child
San Antonio v. Rodriguez declined to recognize a suspect class. Part of their reasoning rests on the fact the class was not definable, "unified only by the common factor of residence in districts that happen to have less taxable wealth than other districts". They called it a "large, diverse, and" this type of unstructured class (9)
Amorphous
2.5 million children are enrolled in school districts where there are no libraries. Starting one of these can help combat "book deserts": LIT WELL FURRY LYE BARRY
Little Free Library
Justice White in San Antonio v. Rodriguez agreed that the state had a legitimate interest in "maximizing local initiative and local choice" in student education. However, he opined the property tax funding structure was not this to that goal, thus failing judicial review.
Rationally related
In NIB v. Sebilius, it was argued that the withholding of Medicaid funds from states who declined to expand Medicaid coverage was coercive and violated this constitutional clause
Spending Clause
In Parents involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, the court stated that the present cases were not governed by Grutter.
True
Part of the issue in Sebelius was whether the government had authority to withhold not only new Medicaid funds from states declining to participate in expansion, but also withdraw all existing funds. The Chief Justice called it "economic this", also meaning to "coerce" (10)
Dragooning
Poverty is correlated to long-term adverse health outcomes. This provision in the ACA prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions: GAY RANT HEED IS SHOE
Guaranteed Issue
Justice Breyer explains "the Equal Protection Clause outlaws invidious discrimination, but does not similarly forbid all use of race-conscious criteria". He cites past Supreme Court decisions supporting this notion, including this one from 2003 which upheld the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions in higher education.
Grutter v. Bollinger
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! Make your wager!
In his San Antonio dissent, Justice Brennan asserts "any classification affecting education must be subjected to strict judicial scrutiny" because of education's impact on the effectuation of rights protected in this constitutional amendment.
Strict scrutiny is applied when a policy disparages on the basis of race, but not when it attempts to remedy, rectify, or equalize.
False. In Parents Involved v. Seattle, the Court quotes itself from Bakke, stating: “[r]acial and ethnic distinctions of any sort are inherently suspect and thus call for the most exacting judicial examination"