Visionary CEOs haven't fared particularly well recently, since "visions" themselves are coming under increasingly strict scrutiny.

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Justice Anthony Kennedy dissented in that case, accusing the majority of shirking its constitutional duty to apply "strict scrutiny" to government policies that discriminate by race.

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Neither the Obama administration nor the appellees in the marriage cases argue that the court should apply strict scrutiny in evaluating laws that make distinctions based on homosexuality.

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Louis where he asked some members of the audience how Missourians would respond to a Supreme Court ruling subjecting gay-marriage bans to the nearly insurmountable constitutional standard of strict scrutiny.

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U.S. The Obama administration argues for "heightened scrutiny, " which the Supreme Court has never used and which is, like intermediate scrutiny, stricter than rational basis and more relaxed than strict scrutiny.

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Laws that distinguish between individuals on the basis of race are (at least in theory) almost impossible to justify, because the Supreme Court has held that they are subject to "strict scrutiny, " the most forbidding standard of review.

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Restrictions upon the use of technology should receive strict legislative scrutiny because of its impact upon innovation and our personal freedom.

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They therefore want the Court to designate homosexuals as a legally protected group like minorities or women and apply to Proposition 8 the highest levels of constitutional protection, called strict or heightened scrutiny.

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