Narrow tailoring

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Narrow tailoring (also known as narrow framing) is a legal phrase referring to the doctrine that laws should be written specifically to fulfill only the goals of that particular law.

This phrase is most commonly invoked in cases which involve racial discrimination by creating racial distinctions. In the case Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), the United States Supreme Court held that:

"Even in the limited circumstance when drawing racial distinctions is permissible to further a compelling state interest, government is still constrained under equal protection clause in how it may pursue that end: the means chosen to accomplish the government's asserted purpose must be specifically and narrowly framed to accomplish that purpose."^[1]