Attorney General James Uthmeier has released an opinion stating that state laws mandating race-based actions by the government are likely unconstitutional. The opinion references the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, section 2, of Florida’s Constitution.
The full text of Attorney General Uthmeier’s opinion is available online.
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“State laws requiring race-based state action are presumptively unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and Article I, section 2, of Florida’s Constitution,” said Attorney General James Uthmeier.
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