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The 21 pages that link to Equal Protection Clause, each with the reason it gives.

• Brown v. Board of EducationBroader topic: The Court used it to reject state-mandated school segregation.

• Title IXCompared with: Unlike Title IX, it directly constrains state action rather than conditioning federal education funds.

• Fourteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionBroader topic: It is the amendment’s central textual guarantee against state discrimination.

• Roe v. WadeCompared with: Some abortion-rights arguments rely on equality rather than Roe’s privacy-based constitutional rationale.

• Equal Rights AmendmentCompared with: It already addresses sex discrimination through judicial interpretation, but does not expressly name sex.

• Thurgood MarshallNarrower topic: Marshall’s segregation cases repeatedly relied on this constitutional guarantee.

• Obergefell v. HodgesBroader topic: The Court held that excluding same-sex couples from marriage also denied them equal protection.

• Strict scrutinyRelated: Strict scrutiny reviews certain government classifications challenged under equal protection.

• Disparate impactNarrower topic: Constitutional equal-protection claims generally require discriminatory purpose, unlike many statutory impact claims.

• Racial profilingRelated: It supplies a constitutional framework for challenges to intentional racial discrimination by state authorities.

• Plessy v. FergusonBroader topic: Later courts used its guarantee to reject state-mandated racial separation.

• Loving v. VirginiaRelated: The Court held Virginia’s racial marriage restrictions violated this constitutional guarantee.

• Reconstruction AmendmentsBroader topic: It supplies a constitutional basis for challenging discriminatory state laws.

• Equal protectionBroader topic: This clause supplies the principle’s central constitutional text.

• Nineteenth AmendmentRelated: Its broader equality guarantee differs from the amendment’s specific prohibition on sex-based voting restrictions.

• Prosecutorial discretionRelated: It limits discriminatory charging decisions by state and local prosecutors.

• Anti-discrimination lawCompared with: It is a constitutional route to challenging discrimination, unlike statutory claims.

• Bush v. GoreRelated: The Court found that differing standards for counting ballots violated this constitutional guarantee.

• Civil Rights Act of 1968Compared with: It constrains government discrimination constitutionally, unlike the Act’s statutory rules governing private housing actors.

• Fifteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionCompared with: Unlike the Fifteenth Amendment’s specified voting grounds, it supports broader equality claims.

• Desegregation in the United StatesNarrower topic: It supplied the constitutional basis for challenging state-enforced racial separation.