West Virginia v. B. P. J. · ¶87

Rather, under the intermediate scrutiny test that the Court applies in a variety of contexts, the “validity of the regulation depends on the relation it bears to the overall problem the government seeks to correct, not on the extent to which it furthers the government’s interests in an individual case.” Ward v. Rock Against Racism, 491 U. S. 781, 801 (1989). So we “judge the validity of the restriction in this case by the relation it bears to the general problem . . . not by the extent to which it furthers the Government’s interest in an individual case.” United States v. Edge Broadcasting Co., 509 U. S. 418, 430–431 (1993).

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