by Dylan » Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:11 am
Not sure what you mean by "equal protection and all that."
Jurisdictions can get out of the automatic review via a bailout provision in section 4. If they can't get out under this, they don't deserve to. Look it up. It's not just what racist great grandparents did.
And either way states rights end when states violate federal rights. There is no state right to violate the constitution.