Well, it’s right there in the Constitution.
yea weird that. I keep looking for health care and marriage in the Constitution and yet I keep missing those words. I then looked at the 14th amendment and still for the life of me see how these 5 idiots who blatantly ignored the twisted the law could say they have equal protection . If we had a GOP who had balls they would impeach Ginsburg for not recusing herself when she did a social contract for the homosexuals and then the wise latina and Kagan have been nothing but activists since they got on the bench
There is no such thing as “equal rights” anywhere in the Constitution. There is only a “born equal”, but the degree of success or failure is entirely up to the individual. The “right” to swing your arms freely ends the moment that fist engages the nose on my face, then the “right” to self-defense kicks in, usually in overdrive and with no sense of just being “equal”.
“Equal before the law” is only the right to be heard, and represented by counsel, in a court of law. When only one side is argued, in the absence of good and just positions of honorable intent, then great mischief is wrought upon the body of existing case and statutory law, with sometimes very regrettable outcomes. There is and never was any promise of “equality of outcome”, nor should there be.
The best that may be hoped for is equity, not equality, which are two very different concepts.