# Scalia says the 14th amendment doesn't apply to women

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**Created:** [January 5, 2011, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scalia-says-the-14th-amendment-doesnt-apply-to-women/566476 "2011-01-05T10:51:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scalia-says-the-14th-amendment-doesnt-apply-to-women/566476/5 "2011-01-05T13:11:15Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> [The Supreme Court declines to halt march to socialism - Salon.com](http://www.salon.com/news/the_supreme_court/?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2011/01/04/scalia_on_women_and_rights) So, can Congress simply legislate away women’s rights with regard to sexual discrimination? Is Scalia’s position consistent with originalism, or is he interpreting the Constitution to be more limited than what it actually says?
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> Persanally, I think Scalia is losing his mind, and is incapable of keeping his increasingly conflicting ideology straight. Or else he just doesn’t care anymore about how thin the fig leaf covering his paleo-conservative agenda appears, and is just one more way he says, [“Vaffanculo!”](http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/vaffanculo.jpg) to the Constitution.

If the 14th does include women, then why was the 19th necessary?

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