In "Romer v. Evans", 517 U.S. 620, 633 (1996), the Court said that the government purpose must be "independent and legitimate." And in "United States v. Virginia", 518 U.S. 515, 533 (1996), the Court said the government purpose "must be genuine, not hypothesized or invented post hoc in response to litigation." Thus, the Court made it clear that, in the scrutiny regime established in "West Coast Hotel v. Parrish", 300 U.S. 379 (1937), government purpose is a question of fact for the trier of fact.