In the Slaughterhouse Cases, the Supreme Court expanded the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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In fact, the Slaughterhouse Cases have been criticized for limiting the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment. In these cases, the Court established a narrow interpretation of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, which prevented it from being used to protect individual rights from state infringement. The Court also held that the Amendment's Equal Protection Clause only applied to cases of racial discrimination, rather than to all forms of discrimination.

In the Slaughterhouse Cases, the Supreme Court Expanded the Reach