{"id":124946,"date":"2025-06-30T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/30\/a-footnote-4-to-history\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:03:18","slug":"a-footnote-4-to-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/30\/a-footnote-4-to-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A Footnote (4) To History"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Questions-620x413.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85292\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Supreme Court just <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/supreme-court-declares-open-season-on-public-education\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extended strict scrutiny protection<\/a> to parents lodging religious objections to public school lessons. This tiered approach to review has its roots in Footnote 4 of the <em>United States v. Carolene Products<\/em> opinion. What product was Carolene Products trying to sell that ran afoul of federal law?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: While the statute remains on the books, the government has taken the stance that the product falls outside the text and stopped enforcing the law, meaning you can pick up a version of the offending product right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/a-footnote-4-to-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Footnote (4) To History<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Questions-620x413.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85292\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Supreme Court just <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/supreme-court-declares-open-season-on-public-education\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extended strict scrutiny protection<\/a> to parents lodging religious objections to public school lessons. This tiered approach to review has its roots in Footnote 4 of the <em>United States v. Carolene Products<\/em> opinion. What product was Carolene Products trying to sell that ran afoul of federal law?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: While the statute remains on the books, the government has taken the stance that the product falls outside the text and stopped enforcing the law, meaning you can pick up a version of the offending product right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/a-footnote-4-to-history\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/a-footnote-4-to-history\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court just extended strict scrutiny protection to parents lodging religious objections to public school lessons. This tiered approach to review has its roots in Footnote 4 of the United States v. Carolene Products opinion. What product was Carolene Products trying to sell that ran afoul of federal law? Hint: While the statute remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Questions-620x413-9830Tz.jpeg?fit=620%2C413&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}