Bad Policy Equals Strict Scrutiny
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Constitutional Law1
Example wrong choices
20586_psalms_hormone_use · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice AWhether the statute is medically unwise, because bad medical policy automatically triggers strict scrutiny.
Why it's attractive
A student may think a medically disputed rule must be constitutionally suspicious. The breaker is that bad policy does not automatically trigger strict scrutiny.
Why it's wrong
The answer says bad medical policy automatically triggers strict scrutiny. The automatic trigger is the visible overclaim.
Spot it next time
Circle automatically and ask whether policy wisdom is a suspect classification.
20586_psalms_hormone_use · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BWhether minors must be treated the same as adults in every medical setting.
Why it's attractive
A student may see the adult/minor contrast and jump to minors' rights. The breaker is that the answer says every medical setting and misses the classification threshold.
Why it's wrong
The answer says minors must be treated like adults in every medical setting. The every-setting language is visibly overbroad.
Spot it next time
Return to the question: the threshold is the classification drawn, not every adult/minor medical right.
20586_psalms_hormone_use · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DWhether the hormone medication is prescribed for other diagnoses, because that fact alone automatically proves sex discrimination.
Why it's attractive
A student may treat same medication for other diagnoses as enough to prove discrimination. The breaker is that fact alone does not automatically prove sex classification.
Why it's wrong
The answer says same medication elsewhere fact alone automatically proves sex discrimination. The Gold Key confirms why that automatic inference fails.
Spot it next time
Separate medical use from sex-as-such classification.
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